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Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921.

Complaint

Vyacheslav Ivanov (b. 1866)

YOUR soul, born deaf and blind, inhabits

Jungles of sunless reverie,

Where with the crash of trampled saplings

Wild droves of dark desires roam free.

A torch I kindled in the darkness

To lead you to my starry gate,

With seeds of light in shining handfuls

The furrows of your night to sate.

I stand amid the trackless stretches

And hail you in the wilderness;

But lost in dark and dreary caverns

My cry sinks silent, answerless.