| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | “Upon the Black Brow of a Cliff” | | By Vasily Bashkin (c. 1880–1909) |
| | | UPON the black brow of a cliff where no life ever stirred | |
| Alighted strong, hoary-winged eagles, grave bird upon bird. | |
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| They whetted their claws on the stones, sitting massive and grum, | |
| And loudly they called on their lately-fledged comrades to come. | |
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| Slow-measured and heavy the beat of their wings on the skies, | 5 |
| Assuageless the rage that tempestuous burned in their eyes. | |
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| And each newly-come they acclaimed with the pride of the peer: | |
| “Hail, comrade! Delay not! The days we have longed for are near.” | | | | |
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