| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | “As Ocean’s Stream” | | By Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873) |
| | | AS ocean’s stream girdles the ball of earth, | |
| From circling seas of dream man’s life emerges, | |
| And as night moves in silence up the firth | |
| The secret tide around our mainland surges. | |
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| The voice of urgent waters softly sounds; | 5 |
| The magic skiff uplifts white wings of wonder. | |
| The tide swells swiftly and the white sail rounds, | |
| Where the blind waves in shoreless darkness thunder. | |
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| And the wide heavens, starred and luminous, | |
| Out of the deep in mystery aspire. | 10 |
| The strange abyss is burning under us; | |
| And we sail onward, and our wake is fire. | | | | |
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