At dawn they came and took you away. You were my dead: I walked behind. In the dark room children cried, the holy candle gasped for air. (Anna Akhmatova)

At dawn they came and took you away. You were my dead: I walked behind. In the dark room children cried, the holy candle gasped for air.

Anna Akhmatova

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