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Voice of the Day: Anna Akhmatova

Wild honey smells of freedom

The dust -- of sunlight

The mouth of a young girl,

like a violet

But gold -- smells of nothing.

- Anna Akhmatova
Russian poet, from her poem "Wild Honey Smells of Freedom"

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