N'écoute pas, Anastasie,
Ce discours qui te trouble.
Repousse ces colliers d'Asie
Ces bagues et ces roubles.
Le bras s'empourpre à l'aventure
Aux champs de Volhynie
Qui sera la rouge ceinture
De tes hanches unies?
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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) , "The undecided", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Anastasia, don't listen
to this speech which troubles you.
Reject these Asian necklaces,
rings and rubles.
The arm grows crimson in the adventures
of the field of Volhynie.
Who will be the scarlet belt
around your hips?