'I've lost a delicate cameo, <br />Somewhere on the Neva's shore. <br />I pity the charming Roman girl,' <br />You said to me, almost in tears. <br /> <br />But why, fair Georgian beauty, <br />Stir up the dust on a sacred tomb? <br />Another downy snowflake <br />Melted on her eyelid's fan. <br /> <br />You bowed your gentle neck. <br />Alas, no cameo, no Roman girl. <br />I pity the tawny Tinotine -- virgin <br />Rome on the Neva's shore.<br /><br />Osip Emilevich Mandelstam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-ve-lost-a-delicate-cameo/
