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Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921.

“A Well, and the Cherry Trees Swaying”

Alexey K. Tolstoy (1817–1875)

A WELL, and the cherry trees swaying

Where bare girlish feet trod the fruit;

Nearby the damp imprint betraying

The stamp of a heavy nailed boot.

Stilled now is the place of their meeting,

But nothing the silence avails:

In my brain passion’s echo repeating

Their whispers—the splash of the pails.