Osip Emilevich Mandelstam

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No, not the moon, but simple dial-plate

No, not the moon, but simple dial-plate Is lightning me, and `tis my nasty fate, That lights of stars I feel as light internal! And loftiness of Batyushkov I hate: 'What time is it?' - he had been asked there late -- And he had answered with curiosity 'Eternal!'