Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov Poems

The Savor said: he's blessed, who has the maimed legs
And envy is a fate of him, who's blind or begs;
They will be living over stars of earthy nights,
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The eternal entrance into Eden
Is not locked with seven precious seals;
It has no charms nor light of heaven,
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It was not only once, it will go this way,
In our fight, which is deaf and destroying:
As it happened before, you rebuffed me today -
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Like undistinguishable horses,
Gleam by my ever-painful days,
As if fade all the living roses,
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Why did you come, my thoughts, in instant,
Like thieves to rob my quiet habitation,
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Oh, how silent is the nature,
It only looks and only hears,
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Only serpents let their skin be fallen
And a soul - all grown up and old.
We, alas, change an eternal soul,
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I wait for, full of thoughts provoking,
But not a gay and pretty wife,
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There are the modern prophets here,
Though altars totally are felt,
Their eyes are very deep and clear -
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My dear friend, and I have tried to find
My paradise in serfdom of a soul,
I liked them all - the odd ways of a mind
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