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Без рубрикиNo Seagulls No Cries
Без рубрикиA View From A Bridge
Без рубрикиGood Bye, White Night
Без рубрикиPositive city and a very very happy place
Без рубрикиA night, a street, a lamp, a drugstore
A meaningless and dismal light
A quarter century outpours –
It’s all the same. No chance to flight.
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You’d die and rise anew, begotten.
All would repeat as ever might:
The street, the icy rippled water,
The store, the lamp, the lonely night.
Alexander Blok, October 10th, 1912
Translated by Dina Belyayeva at silveragepoetry.com (apparently)
Yeah, we are very positive thinking folks here, in St. Petersburg, Alexander Blok included. But! Sarcasm aside. I really think it’s a positive poem. Especially if you read it very rhythmically and loud…and in Russian. :)))