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

“Hopes Painted by the Autumn Cold”

Sergei Yesenin

HOPES, painted by the autumn cold, are shining,

My steady horse plods on, like quiet fate,

His moist dun lip is catching at the lining

When the coat, flapping, flutters and falls straight.

On a far road the unseen traces, leading

Neither to rest nor battle, lure and fade;

The golden heel of day will flash, receding,

And labors in the chest of years be laid.