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✦ 84 ✦ Back Home Again Heat on the seven hills, Doves in the rotting hay, Turban undone from the sun: Time for the towel to be changed (Soaking below in the pail), Wrapped on the cupola’s curls. Murmur of sounds in the town, Shuffle of gardens and girls. Curtains that need to be closed: Strutting about like a Mason. Life is so sleepily slow! Kisses so utterly waking! Grimy and groaning the town Falls into bed from the road. Over the measureless steppe Freshening breezes have blown. Curses unending and dark Over this horrible heat. Bridges, compartments, and stars, Sleep! That fall as well they left from Paveletsky Station. Seven hills: the city of Moscow is said to be situated on seven hills. ...

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