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Not With a Lover.s Lyre / Anna Akhmatova.s Recitation of .the Muse.It's not with a lover's lyre, not at allThat I go around, attracting a crowd It's the rattle with which lepers crawl That in my hands keeps singing aloud Where nothing is needed, I walk like a child My shadow serves as the friend I crave The wind breezes out of a grove gone wild And my foot is on the edge of the grave All that I am hangs by a thread tonight As I wait for her whom no one can command Whatever I cherish most-youth, freedom, glory Fades before her who bears the flute, in her hand |