| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | “Night Was Done” | | By Mikhail Kuzmin (b. 1877) |
| | | NIGHT was done. We rose and after | |
| Washing, dressing,—kissed with laughter,— | |
| After all the sweet night knows. | |
| Lilac breakfast cups were clinking | |
| While we sat like brothers drinking | 5 |
| Tea,—and kept our dominoes. | |
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| And our dominoes smiled greeting, | |
| And our eyes avoided meeting | |
| With our dumb lips’ secrecy. | |
| “Faust” we sang, we played, denying | 10 |
| Night’s strange memories, strangely dying, | |
| As though night’s twain were not we. | | | | |
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