| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | Centuries of Centuries Will Pass | | By Konstantin Balmont (b. 1867) |
| | | LONG centuries of centuries will pass, unsighted | |
| Millenniums as locusts in deathy clouds descend, | |
| And in the muttering of centuries affrighted | |
| The same enduring firmament will watch the end. | |
| The dumb, dead firmament—that God will not remember, | 5 |
| Who breathes Eternity behind the farther skies, | |
| Beyond the fading of the last star’s last slow ember, | |
| Beyond the utter threshold words may scrutinize. | |
| Forever cold, that starry desert, clouds out-topping, | |
| Is flung forth, alien to the end, on space, | 10 |
| When tearing comet-fires will crumble with it, dropping | |
| As dumbly burning tears from a despairing face. | | | | |
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