You will hear thunder and remember me, And th... - Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

"You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire."

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