Prayer

by Anna Akhmatova

  


Give me comfortless seasons of sickness,

  Visitations of wrath and of wrong

  On my house; Lord, take child and companion,

  And destroy the sweet power of song.

  Thus I pray at each matins, each vespers,

  After these many wearying days,

  That the storm-cloud which broods over Russia

  May be changed to a nimbus ablaze.


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