Listen to the dream of night, do not miss the falling star… along my streets, an Invisible Shade, I shall walk behind you…

Listen to the dream of night,
do not miss the falling star…
along my streets, an Invisible Shade,
I shall walk behind you…
Look (I pine so in the desert
far from beloved places…):
is the water in the Neva still blue?
Has the cross not yet been taken from the Angel's hands?

Literal translation

Cherubina de Gabriak, 1928
*Pseudonym and mystification of the Russian noblewoman Elizaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva (1887-1928)

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