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For the Western Hills see note on poem 471. «Have you had your rice?» i.e., «Have you eaten?» is a traditional polite enquiry in China.

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For Po Chu — yi see note on poem 527. The epigraph is taken from Bo Juyi's poem «Night Stop at Rongyang».

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Om mani pad me kum: a meditation mantra.

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Lake Hanka is a lake in the maritime Far East, on the border of Russia and China.

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Mai Mai Cheng: the Chinese city of Maimaicheng and the adjacent Russian city of Kiаikhtа were centres of Sino-Russian trade in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Maxwell Bodenheim, Мита and Myself (1918).

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Abbie Huston Evans, Fuel of Crystal (1961); Vezey gave the poem the draft title «Ниша (Убежище) от взрыва, — Концерт».

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles (1921).

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascense and Other Poems (1917)

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Fatal Interview (1931). Variants in the manuscript: in the eleventh line «или в нужде и мраке, что гнетет», and «в нужде без проблеска, в бессильи от забот»; in the twelfth line «твою любовь продам за облегченье»; in the thirteenth line «иль память о тебе — за хлеб и свет».

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Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems (1916).

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R.L. Stevenson, Songs of Travel.

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William Wordsworth, «Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood» (1897), part V and part of part IX.

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Published in the journal Kharbinskie kommercheskie uchilishcha Kit. Vost. zhel. dor., no. 9, 1969, p. 31, with a misprint in the poet's surname.

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With the notation «из сборника Время разлук (Нью-Йорк. 1971)».

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No dates are available for Andreeva's life. This poem is from Rubezh, Harbin, no. 26, 1930; it received second prize in (he poetry competition organized by the Harbin literary circle of young poets «Churaevka» in the early 1930s

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Translation of the second stanza. Variant in the last line: «the very longest way!»

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Variant in the eighth line in the manuscript: "with a tawny brown hand, and does not dare."

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Mary Vezey's "(??)" in the eighth line presumably indicates a search for a better word.

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Blok supplemented the published poem with a note: «Эпитафия сочинена Полицианом и вырезана на могильной плите в Сполотском соборе по повелению Лаврентия Великолепного». Fra Filippo Lippi (са. 1406–1469) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance.

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Variant in the fifth line of the second stanza in the manuscript: «could have you come to visit me».

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Андрей Блох (ок. 1896 — после 1930) Данные о поэте и переводчике крайне скудны: известно, что в начале 20-х годов он служил во французском Иностранном легионе; печатался во множестве периодических изданий (преимущественно выходивших в Латвии на русском языке между 1922 и 1930 годами). Автор двух поэтических сборников — «Стихотворения» (1927) и «Поэмы и стихи» (1929); оба изданы в Париже.