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First Line: Give me comfortless seasons of sickness
Last Line: May be changed to a nimbus ablaze.
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna


Give me comfortless seasons of sickness,
Visitations of wrath and of wrong
On my house; Lord, take child and companion,
And destroy the sweet power of song.

Thus I pray at each matins, each vespers,
After these many wearying days,
That the storm-cloud which broods over Russia
May be changed to a nimbus ablaze.





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