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# But I warn you, I live for the last time
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/no-ia-preduprezhdaiu-vas-chto-ia-zhivu-v-poslednii-raz/
- Published: 2026-01-04T09:03:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T09:13:11.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, People

But I warn you,  
That I am living for the last time.  
Not as a swallow, nor as a maple,  
Nor as a reed, nor as a star,  
Nor as spring water,  
Nor as a peal of bells,  
I shall not trouble people  
And visit other people's dreams  
With an unquenched moan.

*Literal translation*

**Anna Akhmatova. 1940**