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We met in an unbelievable year, When the world's strength was at an ebb, Everything withered by adversity, And only the graves were fresh
The title and prompt are translated lines from a poem by the Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova, in The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova.
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, known by her pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian and Soviet poet. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 and 1966. Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem, her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. (Wikipedia)
