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No foreign sky protected me,
no stranger's wing shielded my face.
I stand as witness to the common lot,
survivor of that time, that place.
— 1961
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Translated in Poems of Akhmatova (1973) by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward
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No, not under a foreign heavenly-cope, and Not canopied by foreign wings I was with my people in those hours, There where, unhappily, my people were.
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Translated by D. M. Thomas

 

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