| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | “With Wavering Feet” | | By Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900) |
| | | WITH wavering feet I walked where dawn-lit mists were lying, | |
| To find the shores of wonder and of mystery. | |
| Dawn struggled with the final stars, frail dreams were flying, | |
| While unto unknown gods my morning lips were crying | |
| The prayers that my dream-imprisoned soul had whispered me. | 5 |
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| The noon is cold and candid, the road winds on severely, | |
| And through an unknown land once more my journey lies. | |
| The mist has lifted now, and the stark eye sees clearly | |
| How hard the mountain-road that rises upward sheerly, | |
| How distant looms the dream the prescient heart descries! | 10 |
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| Yet onward with unfaltering feet I shall be going | |
| Toward midnight, onward toward the shore of my desires, | |
| Where on a mountain-height, new stars its glory showing, | |
| My promised temple waits, with plinth and pillar glowing, | |
| Beaten about with flame of white, triumphal fires. | 15 | | | |
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