| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | Complaint | | By Vyacheslav Ivanov (b. 1866) |
| | | YOUR soul, born deaf and blind, inhabits | |
| Jungles of sunless reverie, | |
| Where with the crash of trampled saplings | |
| Wild droves of dark desires roam free. | |
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| A torch I kindled in the darkness | 5 |
| To lead you to my starry gate, | |
| With seeds of light in shining handfuls | |
| The furrows of your night to sate. | |
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| I stand amid the trackless stretches | |
| And hail you in the wilderness; | 10 |
| But lost in dark and dreary caverns | |
| My cry sinks silent, answerless. | | | | |
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