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Awakening (Pushkin)

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Awakening (1816)
by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Dmitri Smirnov

Written in 1816 while Pushkin studied in the Imperial Lyceum, Tsarskoye Selo. First published in 1817. Revised in 1825.

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Awakening

O dreams, O dreams,
Where are your delights?
Oh, where are you,
The joys of night?
The joyous dream
Is vanished,
And in a deep darkness
I woke up
Alone.
The deathly-still night
Surrounds my bed.
The dreams of love
Grew cold in a moment,
And flew away
As a flock of birds.
But my soul
Is still full of desires,
And catches
The memories of a dream.
O love, O love,
Listen to my prayers,
Send me again
Yours sweet visions,
And in the morning
Let me die
In ecstasy
With no awakening.
1816/1825 

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