1 <br /> <br />Let us glorify, brothers, the twilight of freedom -- <br />The great twilight year. <br />A weighty forest of nets is lowered <br />Into the bubbling waters of night. <br />You are rising into desolate years, <br />O sun, judge, people. <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />Let us glorify the fateful burden, <br />Which the nation's chief takes up in tears. <br />Let us glorify the twilight burden of power, <br />Its unbearable weight. <br />Whoever has the heart should hear, time, <br />How your ship is sinking. <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />We tied the swallows into battle legions <br />And so, the sun's obscured; all of nature <br />Warbles, whirls, lives; <br />The dense twilight through the nets <br />The sun's obscured, and the land sets sail. <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />But still, let us try: an enormous, awkward, <br />Screeching turn of the wheel. <br />The land is sailing. Take courage, men! <br />Dividing the ocean, like a plow, <br />We will recall even in Lethe's frost, <br />That our land cost ten heavens.<br /><br />Osip Emilevich Mandelstam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/twilight-of-freedom/
