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O time, great Healer! canst thou still

The crying hearts that feel the knife?

O great Restorer, canst thou fill

The wide gaps broken out of life

By love and duty’s bitter strife?

O Friend, and canst thou, as they say,

Soothe all our troubles on thy breast,

Till, calm in death, they pass away,

And, one by one, are laid to rest

In unknown graves, beyond our quest?

Nay, there’s a wound thou canst not ease;

Nay, there’s a sickness past thine art.

Ah me! while I’m beyond the seas,

There’ll be a sore place in my heart

That, at a touch, will throb and smart.

Nay, nay, with all thy skill-with all

The care and cunning thou mayst spend,

Thou canst but weakly patch the wall

That wrench of parting came to rend,

That gap no mason’s hand can mend.

And as for buried sorrows-one

Hears every sound above its head;

Joys and prosperities may run

With happy footsteps o’er the dead,-

This grief of absence feels the tread.

O Time, thy graveyard is a street-

Thy graves no sculptured records crown;

Yet this one, trod of many feet,

Still shows the heap’d earth, fresh and brown,-

No foot of joy can press it down.

There velvet mosses soon will creep,

And grey and golden lichens grow;

There sweet white snowdrops soon will peep,

And purple violets bud and blow,

From winter’s bosom, cloak’d in snow;

There summer lights and shades will fall,

And soft rains patter through the trees;

There slender grasses, frail and tall,

Will weave and whisper in the breeze-

‘Twill be a grave in spite of these.

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• Ольга Ермолаева – Если о плачущих by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Ермолаева – Будет весь день долбить by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Ермолаева – Барственный Шехтель все ирисы лепит на фриз by Поэзия На Русском
• Ольга Берггольц – Вечерняя станция by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Ты в пустыню меня послала by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Ты будешь ждать by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Трагедия всех трагедий by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о себе by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Слепой by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Сейчас тебе всё кажется тобой by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Романс стойкого оловянного солдатика by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Разведчик by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Пусть голосуют дети by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Приятелям by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Феодосия by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Здравствуй by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Знаю, чем меня пленила by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Заметь, заметь, Как легчает сердце by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Я все оставляю тебе при уходе by Ольга Берггольц
• Ольга Берггольц – Я так хочу, так верю, так люблю by Ольга Берггольц

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