Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921.
A Northern PoemNikolai Kluyev
(Trans. Avrahm Yarmolinsky)
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Green—the hedge, and brown—the field;
Mossy rifts in weathered stones
Meekly vernal waters yield.
God has touched it with his palm;
Piously wild berries weep,
Listening to the grassy psalm.
And my heart’s a springing mead.
Come, ye pilgrims white and shy,
Peck the early wheaten seed.
Cottage windows, gabled byres,
And the leaves of slender birches
Glimmer soft as wedding fires.