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

“Savage, Nomad Hordes”

Anatoly Marienhof

SAVAGE, nomad hordes

Of Asia

Poured fire out of the vats!

Razin’s execution is avenged,

And Pugachov’s pain

Whose beard was torn away.

Hooves

Have broken

The scruff of the earth,

Cold with centuries,

And the supernal sky, like a stocking

With a hole in its heel

Has been taken out of the laundry-trough

Wholly clean.