| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | Fountain | | By Vyacheslav Ivanov (b. 1866) |
| | | CLEAR the fountain waters glowing, | |
| Living streams, the well-springs flowing, | |
| Cold, in darkling woods, a spring. | |
| In the shed, cool stillness streaming, | |
| O’er the well, a candle gleaming | 5 |
| On Christ’s crown its gilding flings. | |
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| In the Eden field—a bower, | |
| And a fountain, and a flower. | |
| Christ, star-voiced, the spirit stills: | |
| “Come, before the well-spring stooping, | 10 |
| Of my quiet waters scooping,— | |
| For the stintless bucket fills.” | | | | |
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