Need help translating a postcard you've received?

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Hi, I received this card from Russia today, Text written with the cirillic alphabet. Can somebody please translate it for me? :slight_smile:

It is a quote from Osip Mandelshtam’s poem, I found its translation here

А ты в кругу лучись, —
Другого счастья нет,
И у звезды учись
Тому, что значит свет.

But you shine in an orb -
There is no other bliss,
And from the star absorb
What light precisely is.

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Thanks! :slight_smile: