| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | “Austere the Music of My Songs” | | By Fyodor Sologub (Pseudonym of Fyodor Teternikov) (b. 1863) |
| | | AUSTERE the music of my songs: | |
| The echo of sad utterance fills them, | |
| A bitter breath, far-wafted, chills them; | |
| And is my back not bent to thongs? | |
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| The mists of day on darkness fall; | 5 |
| The vainly promised land I follow | |
| Upon a road the shadows swallow; | |
| The world rears round me like a wall. | |
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| At times from that far land the vain | |
| Faint voice will sound like distant thunder. | 10 |
| Can long abeyance of a wonder | |
| Obliterate the long bleak pain? | | | | |
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