| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | A Northern Poem | By Nikolai Kluyev
(Trans. Avrahm Yarmolinsky) |
| | | SUNSET dreams on fir-tree cones, | |
| Green—the hedge, and brown—the field; | |
| Mossy rifts in weathered stones | |
| Meekly vernal waters yield. | |
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| Oh, look up the wooded steep— | 5 |
| God has touched it with his palm; | |
| Piously wild berries weep, | |
| Listening to the grassy psalm. | |
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| And I feel no fleshly tie; | |
| And my heart’s a springing mead. | 10 |
| Come, ye pilgrims white and shy, | |
| Peck the early wheaten seed. | |
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| Tender evening twilight searches | |
| Cottage windows, gabled byres, | |
| And the leaves of slender birches | 15 |
| Glimmer soft as wedding fires. | | | | |
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