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The Rose
By Alexander Pushkin (17991837)
Translation of Thomas Budd Shaw
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Tell if ye may!
Faded the rose, friends,
The Dawn-child of Day.
Ah, do not say,
Such is life’s fleetness!
No, rather say,
I mourn thee, rose,—farewell!
Now to the lily-bell
Flit we away.