Reading Hamlet
by Anna Akhmatova
A dusty waste-plot by the cemetery,
Behind it, a river flashing blue.
You said to me, 'Go get thee to a nunnery,
Or get a fool to marry you...'
Well, princes are good at such speeches,
As a girl is quick to tears,--
But may those words stream like an ermine mantle
Behind him for ten thousand years.
1909, Kiev
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