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Able translation of one of Russia’s greatest poets Michael Lermontoff, (or, Mikhail Lermontov) by Alex Condie Stephen. One illustration. Printed in 1875.<br />
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“...Cold and regretless shalt thou view this sphere,<br />
Where crime’s inseparable from fate,<br />
Where beauty only blossoms to grow sear,<br />
Where all is miserable, where, without fear<br />
No one can either love or hate.<br />
Know’st thou, Tamára, what is mortal love?<br />
A febrile movement of the blood!<br />
Years roll away—the pulse can scarcely move,<br />
Love’s wither’d branches cease to bud.<br />
Who can resist new beauty’s luring bait?<br />
Who, parting, never shed a tear?<br />
Who can withstand the tedium of fate,<br />
The weariness of all things here?<br />
No, my beloved, believe, ’tis not thy lot<br />
To perish in a living grave,<br />
In silence, languish on this narrow spot,<br />
Of brutal jealousy the slave....”<br />
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