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Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921.

A Nereid

Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837)

AMONG the glaucous waves that kiss gold Tauris’ beaches

I saw a Nereid, as dawn flushed heaven’s reaches.

I barely dared to breathe, hid in the olive trees,

While the young demigoddess rose above the seas;

Her young, her swan-white breast above the waters lifting,

From her soft hair she wrung the foam in garlands drifting.