“Nothing I counted mine, out of my life,
is mine to take…”

Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987)
Context: No use to fall down on my knees
and beg for mercy's sake.
Nothing I counted mine, out of my life,
is mine to take...

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Russian modernist poet 1889–1966

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