| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | Russian Spring | | By Ivan Bunin (b. 1870) |
| | | IN the valley the birches are bored. | |
| On the meadows, fog billows and weighs. | |
| Sodden, with horse-dung floored, | |
| The highroad blackens in haze. | |
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| Rich on the steppe’s sleepy air, | 5 |
| The odor of freshly-baked bread. | |
| Bent to their packs, slowly fare | |
| Two beggars to look for a bed. | |
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| Round puddles gleam in the streets. | |
| The fumes of the ovens stun. | 10 |
| Thawing, the bleak earthen seats | |
| Smolder and steam in the sun. | |
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| By the corn-bin, dragging his chain, | |
| The sheep-dog yawns on the sill. | |
| Walls smoke with the charcoal stain. | 15 |
| The steppe is foggy and still. | |
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| The carefree cock will perform | |
| Day-long for the sap-stirred earth. | |
| In the fields it is drowsy and warm. | |
| In the heart—indolent mirth. | 20 | | | |
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