(two versions of) Almost in the album

Почти в альбом by Anna Akhmatova

You will hear thunder and remember me;

You’ll think: O! how she wanted thunderstorms…

The horizon will turn scarlet, deep and warm,

My heart, just as it was, on fire will be.

O! it will happen on that Moscow day,

when I will leave the city far behind

and head towards that place within my mind,

my shadow among you all that will remain.

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You will hear thunder and remember me.

You’ll think: she wanted a disaster…

The line of the sky will turn deep scarlet,

and my heart will be as it was then — on fire.

It will happen on that Moscow day,

When I leave the city forever

and strive toward my ultimate goal,

my shadow still left between you.