“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
by the false azure in the windowpane;”
Vladimir Nabokov book Pale Fire
Source: Pale Fire (1962)
“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, book Pale Fire
Source: Pale Fire
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