Anna Akhmatova, 1922, by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Russian State Museum , St. Petersburg, Russia
The Last Toast
I drink to home, that is lost,
To evil life of mine,
To loneness in which we’re both,
And to your future, fine, --
To lips by which I was betrayed,
To eyes that deathly cold,
To that the world is bad and that
We were not saved by God.
To evil life of mine,
To loneness in which we’re both,
And to your future, fine, --
To lips by which I was betrayed,
To eyes that deathly cold,
To that the world is bad and that
We were not saved by God.
Anna Akhmatova
from The Break, 1934
Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, 2000
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