Celebrate

Portrait of Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova 1889–1966

Celebrate our anniversary - can't you see tonight the snowy night of our first winter comes back again in every road and tree - that winter night of diamantine splendour.

Steam is pouring out of yellow stables, the Moika river's sinking under snow, the moonlight's misted as it is in fables, and where we are heading - I don't know.

There are icebergs on the Marsovo Pole. The Lebyazh'ya's crazed with crystal art..... Whose soul can compare with my soul, if joy and fear are in my heart? -

And if your voice, a marvellous bird's, quivers at my shoulder, in the night, and the snow shines with a silver light, warmed by a sudden ray, by your words?

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    Hello Fast CheetahsAs you know I have been sick but not too sick to work on a project with my mum. We have wrettin a poem which is also a riddle. If you can work it out, you will know what we have been doing.You may think that you are fast,But in a race with me you would never last.Some people say I have spots,And some people say I have dots.I may be yellow,But you would never call me mellow!Who am I?See you very soon, Ella and her mum

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