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Over a pier, the first beacon inflamed —
The vanguard of other sea-rangers;
The mariner cried and bared his head;
He sailed with death beside and ahead
In seas, packed with furious dangers.
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By our doors Great Victory stay...
But how we'll glory her advent?
Let women lift higher the children! They blessed
With life mid a thousand thousands deaths —
Thus will be the dearest answered.
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Славно начато славное дело
В грозном грохоте, в снежной пыли,
Где томится пречистое тело
Оскверненной врагами земли.
К нам оттуда родные березы
Тянут ветки и ждут и зовут,
И могучие деды-морозы
С нами сомкнутым строем идут.
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Вспыхнул над молом первый маяк,
Других маяков предтеча,—
Заплакал и шапку снял моряк,
Что плавал в набитых смертью морях
Вдоль смерти и смерти навстречу.
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Победа у наших стоит дверей...
Как гостью желанную встретим?
Пусть женщины выше поднимут детей,
Спасенных от тысячи тысяч смертей,—
Так мы долгожданной ответим.
«Maternally — in a dream — with my ear. / As for you, I am inclined to rumor, / As is my soul — to your suffering: a fever? yes? / As for you, I am inclined to your face, Measuring the up — per reaches of your forehead. / As for you, I am inclined to your blood, / To your heart, ...»
«Out of the leprosarium of falsity and malice / I have roused you and taken you Into reveille! Out of the dead sleep of headstones — / Into my hands, here into these palms, both of them, Shell-like — now grow, be calm: / Grow like a pearl in these palms! O, neither sheikh nor shah may b...»
«Fierce valley, / Valley of love. / Hands: white with salt. / Mouth: black with blood. A left-breasted Amazon’s / Shaft just missed my temple. / Yes — my head on a stone — / Life, who could love you? To hell with my plans! To hell with my lies! / Here: as a lark, there: as...»
«Time I got the message. / In my deaf stupor — time / For those laws of the sublime / Life does telegraph. Uncertainly — on my shoulders, / My head crowned and pushed on. / Uncertainly — as a solitary ray, / Unnoticed in daylight. As if from a slack string — / Dust — shaken ...»