Is the poem recited in Orache one of Nabokov's, or from somewhere else - I can't seem to find it anywhere else.

 

"( ... along a narrow margin overgrown

with clover ... or ache ...)"

 

"... with clover and with clinging orache"

 

Apollon Maykov’s poem Niva (“The Cornfield,” 1856) begins as follows:

 

По ниве прохожу я узкою межой,
Поросшей кашкою и цепкой лебедой.

 

I walk along a cornfield’s narrow margin

Overgrown with clover and with clinging orach.

 

Alexey Sklyarenko

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