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

“Now Dry Thy Eyes”

Mikhail Kuzmin (b. 1877)

NOW dry thy eyes, and shed no tears.

In heaven’s straw-pale meadows veers

Aquarius, and earthward peers,

His emptied vessel overturning.

No storming snows, no clouds that creep

Across the sheer pure emerald steep,

Whence, thinly-drawn, a ray darts deep

As a keen lance with edges burning.