We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked. (Anna Akhmatova)

We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.

Anna Akhmatova

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