| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | Creation | | By Zinaida Hippius (Mme. Dmitry Merezhkovsky) (b. 1869) |
| | | THOU queen of all serenity, | |
| Soul of my soul, most chaste, | |
| I summon thee, divinity, | |
| I summon thee, make haste! | |
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| But to the tryst thy offering | 5 |
| Shall not be brought alone. | |
| My guilt will come, my suffering, | |
| My sin will lift its moan. | |
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| Before thy heart insulted so, | |
| In shame my head will sink; | 10 |
| And I, who once exulted so, | |
| My humble tears shall drink. | |
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| Forgive me that diurnity | |
| Is all my love could dower; | |
| That not for all eternity,— | 15 |
| I made thee for an hour. | |
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| Alone my will hath kindled here | |
| Thy being from the void. | |
| And thou shalt soon have dwindled here, | |
| By my sole will destroyed. | 20 |
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| As I, thou shalt grow tremulous, | |
| Till all my strength is gone, | |
| To fall, of silence emulous, | |
| Into oblivion. | | | | |
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