Alexander Blok
So when I retire from the timeline stream...

So when I retire from the timeline stream
Abandoning censure and praise
Remember the kindness, the warmhearted dream
I lived on and bloomed in those days.

My darling, I know You"ll forget all the spite
There used to be on my part,
When You, like a swan, appeared, snow-white,
Impaling the depth of my heart.

I wasn't the one who had wounded Your pride,
It was someone else's design.
Dark clouds would trouble my day and my light,
Your day was brighter than mine.

So when I retire from this lifetime string
And vanish beyond the blue grid,
You will remember the song we would sing, —
I'd sing it, and You would repeat.

Translated by Alec Vagapov