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Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921.

“Into Crimson Dark”

Alexander Blok (1880–1921)

INTO crimson dark thou goest,

Thy vast orbits mock the eye.

Small the echo that thou throwest,

Far, I hear thy footfalls die.

Art thou near?—too far for greeting?

Lost in topless altitudes?

Shall I wait a sudden meeting

Where sonorous stillness broods?

In the solitude resounding

Distant footsteps echo free.

Is it thou who flamest, bounding

Circles of infinity?