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Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps.  Modern Russian Poetry.  1921.
 
“Radiant Ranks of Seraphim”
By Valery Brusov (b. 1873)
 
RADIANT ranks of seraphim
Stir the air about our bed.
With their windy wings and dim
Our hot cheeks are comforted.
 
Low the circling seraphs bend,        5
And we tremble and rejoice
At hosannas that ascend,
Winged with their unearthly voice.
 
Cloudy luminous faces hover,
And the wing-swept candles wane.        10
And our fiery breasts they cover
As with hidden holy rain.
 
 
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