The memory of the sun is weakening...

The memory of the sun is weakening in my heart.
Turns yellow the grass.
The wind blows the early snowflakes
Lightly, lightly.

In the narrow channels there is no flow--
Water freezes.
Nothing will ever happen here,--
Oh, never!

In the empty sky the willow has been thrown
A wind transparent.
Maybe it's for the better that I haven't become 
Your wife.

The memory of the sun is weakening in the heart.
What is it? Darkness?
Maybe!...Within a night may come
Winter.

by Anna Akhmatova
1911
Poem from Evening(1912)
Translated by Ljubov V. Kuchkina

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