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Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin

Friendship

What's friendship? The hangover's faction,
The gratis talk of outrage,
Exchange by vanity, inaction,
Or bitter shame of patronage.


Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, January, 2000
Edited by Dmitry Karshtedt, August, 2000


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