We being so hidden from those who
Have quietly borne and fed us,
How can we answer civilly
Their innocent invitations?

How can we say “we see you
As but-for-God’s-grace-ourselves, as
Our caricatures (we yours), with
Time’s telescope between us”?

How can we say “you presumed on
The accident of kinship,
Assumed our friendship coatlike,
Not as a badge one fights for”?

How say “and you remembered
The sins of our outlived selves and
Your own forgiveness, buried
The hatchet to slow music;

Shared money but not your secrets;
Will leave as your final legacy
A box double-locked by the spider
Packed with your unsolved problems”?

How say all this without capitals,
Italics, anger or pathos,
To those who have seen from the womb come
Enemies? How not say it?

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Poems in English 

• Starlight by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Song Of The Peri by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Song Of The Parao Camping Ground by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Song Of The Enfifa River by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Song Of The Devoted Slave by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Song Of The Colours By Taj Mahomed by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Song Of Taj Mahomed by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Song Of Ramesram Temple Girl by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Song Of Khan Zada by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Song Of Jasoda by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Song Of Faiz Ulla by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Song By Gulbaz by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Sleep by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Shivratri The Night Of Shiva While The Procession Passed At Ramesram by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Sher Afzul by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Sea Song by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Sampan Song by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Rutland Gate by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Reverie Zahir U Din by Adela Florence Nicolson
• Reverie Ofmahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank by Adela Florence Nicolson

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

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Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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