| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | “Oh, Thou, My Wizard Soul” | | By Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873) |
| | | OH, thou, my wizard soul, oh, heart | |
| That whelming agony immerses, | |
| The threshold of two universes | |
| In cleaving these, tears thee apart. | |
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| And so two alien worlds are thine: | 5 |
| Thy day of morbid passionate living, | |
| Thy sleep, vague revelations giving | |
| Of spirits secret and divine. | |
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| Then let the tortured bosom beat | |
| With fatal passion and vagary; | 10 |
| The soul is fain, even as Mary, | |
| To cling forever to Christ’s feet. | | | | |
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