I could not among the misty clouds
Your unstable and painful image catch,
‘Oh, my God’, I promptly said aloud,
Having not a thought these words to fetch.
As a bird — an immense bird and sound —
Holly Name flew out of my chest.
And ahead the mist mysterious crowds,
And the empty cage behind me rests.
(Osip Emilevich Mandelstam)
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