8th November 1913

by Anna Akhmatova

  


Sunlight fills my room

  With hot dust, lucent, grey.

  I wake, and I remember:

  Today is your saint's day.

  That's why even the snow

  Is warm beyond the window,

  That's why, sleeplessly,

  Like a communicant, I slept.

  


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