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Слушать(AI)The Room Above the Square
The light in the window seemed
When you stayed in the high room for me;
It glowed above the trees through
Like my certainty.
The light is fallen and you are
In sunbright peninsulas of the sword:
Torn like leaves through Europe is the
That through us flowed.
Now I climb up alone to the high
Above the darkened
Where among stones and roots, the
Unshattered lovers are.

Stephen Spender
Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of
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