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Down Sally Cow Lane and Elsewhere

What is this dire delight flowering fleeing always earth?

Blossoms rupture and rapture the air,
What is being? What is truth?
What is being? What is truth?
Blossoms rupture and rapture the air,
Blossoms rupture and rapture the air,
All hover and hammer,
All hover and hammer,
Time intensified and time intolerable, sweetness raveling rot.
Time intensified and time intolerable, sweetness raveling rot.
It is now. It is not. —Osip Mandelstam, translated by Christian Wiman
It is now. It is not.
—Osip Mandelstam, translated by Christian Wiman

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