Translation:Should any soul have the gift of wings ...

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Should any soul have the gift of wings ... (1918)
by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated from Russian by Wikisource
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Should any soul have the gift of wings
Chamber and hall will not stay their swings
They shall not quail at a horde or host …
Two in this world have my loathing most:
– How do the twain seem so like each other! –
Glut of the sated and famished hunger