Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0018229, Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:45:20 +0400

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BIRTHDAY: little poem
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See attachment for the original of this little poem (I'm not really a poet and couldn't come up with anything better than these lines as a birthday present).



The pale fire of Spring! It is not allowed

to play with it, burning transparently.

The hero's suicide is postponed

till October 19.

Back to the ancients, I notice that there is a hazelhen in Aristophanes' play "The Birds".

Alexey Sklyarenko

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