I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the window…

Vladimir Nabokov
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated, p.418, Vintage
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