Osip Emilevich Mandelstam - Go back to the tainted lap, Leah

Osip Emilevich Mandelstam - Go back to the tainted lap, Leah

Go back to the tainted lap, Leah, br Whence you came, br Because to the sun of Ilion br You preferred yellow twilight. br br Go, no one will touch you, br Let the incestuous daughter br Drop her head on her father's breast br In the dead of night. br br But the fatal change br Must be fulfilled in you; br You shall be Leah -- not Helen -- br Thus not betrothed, br br For it is harder for a king's blood br To flow in the veins than another's -- br No, you will love a Jew, br You will vanish in him, and br God help you.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-10

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