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Colonel Corazon
Feb 12, 2011

A faction armed to the teeth hardly seems friendly to me.

I love Russian poets.

Afanasy Fet posted:

Russian:

На стоге сена ночью южной
Лицом ко тверди я лежал,
И хор светил, живой и дружный,
Кругом раскинувшись, дрожал.

Земля, как смутный сон немая,
Безвестно уносилась прочь,
И я, как первый житель рая,
Один в лицо увидел ночь.

Я ль несся к бездне полуночной,
Иль сонмы звезд ко мне неслись?
Казалось, будто в длани мощной
Над этой бездной я повис.

И с замираньем и смятеньем
Я взором мерил глубину,
В которой с каждым я мгновеньем
Все невозвратнее тону.

English:

My face turned upwards to the sky
One summer night I lay upon some hay
A lively close-knit starry chorus
Was flickering all around.

The mute earth, nebulous and dreamlike,
Rushed off without a trace
And I, like Eden's first inhabitant,
Faced night's gaze all alone.

Was it I hurtling into midnight's depths
Or was it crowds of stars that hurtled toward me?
It seemed as if a mighty palm
Held me suspended over the abyss.

And with a heart confused and stunned
I cast my gaze into the depths,
Whence sinking every moment deeper,
I never will return.

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