Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok Poems

Those born in obscure times
Do not remember their way.
We, children of Russia's frightful years
Cannot forget a thing.
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III

The lads have all gone to the wars
to serve in the Red Guard ~
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I apprehend You. The years pass by -
Yet in constant form, I apprehend You.
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Night, streets, the lantern, the drugstore,
The meaningless and dusky light.
A quarter of the century more -
All fall the same into your sight!
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This night on track, that's single and narrow,
Passed by two shadows, void of mirth -
The two who're predestined forever
To be the poles of the earth -
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Into crimson dark thou goest,
Thy vast orbits mock the eye.
Small the echo that thou throwest,
Far, I hear thy footfalls die.
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In summer, hot, and winter, snow-clad,
In days you bury, wed, or feast at home,
I wait for easy, never ever heard
Ringing - to free myself of devastating boredom.
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All perished, all! The sun, in flame and brilliance,
As did it long before, the years' circle fulfils.
A sorrow grave deplores the past existence -
That was so beautiful - under the solemn hills.
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Why, why forever to the deadly line
I'm pushed unpityingly by blows of the Fortune?
Whether all this, including life of mine,
Are only moments of the endless torture?
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Spring breaks in rivers the ice-floes,
And I don't pity my sweet dead:
Having subdued my heights and roads,
Forgot I winter narrow lows,
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