Here you will find thePoemGo back to the tainted lap, Leahof poet Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
Go back to the tainted lap, Leah, Whence you came, Because to the sun of Ilion You preferred yellow twilight. Go, no one will touch you, Let the incestuous daughter Drop her head on her father's breast In the dead of night. But the fatal change Must be fulfilled in you; You shall be Leah -- not Helen -- Thus not betrothed, For it is harder for a king's blood To flow in the veins than another's -- No, you will love a Jew, You will vanish in him, and God help you.
