Osip Emilevich Mandelstam

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I've lost a delicate cameo

'I've lost a delicate cameo, Somewhere on the Neva's shore. I pity the charming Roman girl,' You said to me, almost in tears. But why, fair Georgian beauty, Stir up the dust on a sacred tomb? Another downy snowflake Melted on her eyelid's fan. You bowed your gentle neck. Alas, no cameo, no Roman girl. I pity the tawny Tinotine -- virgin Rome on the Neva's shore.