Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
A song from the film “Fate’s Irony”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjRbmBXywH4
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There’ll be no one in the house
Save for twilight. All alone,
Winter’s day seen in the space that’s
Made by curtains left undrawn.
Only flash-past of the wet white
Snowflake clusters, glimpsed and gone.
Only roofs and snows, and save for
Roofs and snow – no one at home.
Once more, frost [...]
