THE LAST TOAST :- A POIGNANT LOVE POEM BY ANNA AKHMATOVA !

AKHMATOVA

THE LAST TOAST

TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY KATIE FARRIS AND ILYA KAMINSKY


I drink to our ruined house
To the evil of my life
To our loneliness together
And I drink to you—
To the lying lips that have betrayed us,
To the dead-cold eyes,
To the fact that the world is brutal and coarse
To the fact that God did not save us.

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