The long tale
secretly kroyas,
Beats conditional hour.
The dark mask
Slot
bright eyes.
No sadder bedspreads,
Mill no thinner…
- You are kindly, what I knew,
Mr. poet!
- You do not know in Russian,
Mrs. mine…
On the shoulder of the fabric dull,
At the end of the narrow shoes
Quiet dozing snake.
9 January 1907