Le soir vient; la bise têtue
Dévaste les bouleaux;
La voix des fontaines s'est tue
A Tsarkoie Selo.
Poursuivant son ombre qu'allonge
Le couchant solennel,
Erre dans le palais de songe
Un pâle colonel.
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First published in La Nouvelle Revue Française, nouvelle série, February 1, 1920 (7ème année, n°77).
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- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Colonel Romanov", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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It is evening. The cold wind
worries the birches.
The fountains are silent
at Tsarskoje Selo.
Chasing his shadow,
lengthened by the setting sun,
a pale colonel wanders
through the dream palace.