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Subject: Under caresses of an ivy plaid
From: Ilya Shambat
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Subject: Under caresses of an ivy plaid
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcf6AwE13d0

Under caresses of an ivy
Plaid I recalled yesterday's dream.
Whose victory? Who's been defeated?
What has it been?

Rethinking everything once more,
Torturing myself once again.
In this, for which no word I know,
Love it has been, love it has been.

Who was the hunter? Who - the hunted?
All is reversed as if by Satan!
What did the loudly purring
Siberian Cat, understand?

In this self-willing one another
Who in whose hand was but a ball?
Whose heart flew - yours or mine,
Do you recall?

And still again - what has it been too?
What do I want, what do I pity?
And I don't know: Did I win?
Or did you Conquer me?

By Marina Tsvetayeva
Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat

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Under caresses of an ivy plaid	Ilya Shambat