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Rachel

“Meeting, hardly meeting”

Meeting, hardly meeting, suffices:
one quick glance, fragments of obscure words,
and again waves of happiness and pain
sweep over everything and rage.

The dam of oblivion I had built in my defence
is as if it had never been.
I kneel on the shore of the roaring sea
and drink my fill.

"MEETING, HARDLY MEETING"

Rachel

Rachel

(Rusland, 1890 - 1931)

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"MEETING, HARDLY MEETING"

“Meeting, hardly meeting”

Meeting, hardly meeting, suffices:
one quick glance, fragments of obscure words,
and again waves of happiness and pain
sweep over everything and rage.

The dam of oblivion I had built in my defence
is as if it had never been.
I kneel on the shore of the roaring sea
and drink my fill.
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