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'You took away all the oceans and all the room'

You took away all the oceans and all the room.
You gave me my shoe-size in earth with bars around it.
Where did it get you? Nowhere.
You left me my lips, and they shape words, even in silence.

translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin

Osip Mandelstam (1891 - 1938)

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