Those Born In Obscure Times poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster

A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок
(1880-1921)

Those born in obscure times

Do not remember their way.

We, children of Russia’s frightful years

Cannot forget a thing.

Incinerating years!, do you bring tidings

of madness or of hope?

The days of war, the days of freedom

Have left a bloody sheen on our faces.

There is a muteness – the tocsin bell

Has made us close our lips.

In our hearts, once so ardent,

There is a fateful emptiness.

Let the croaking ravens

Take flight above our deathbed –

O Lord, O Lord, may those more worthy than us,

Behold Thy kingdom!

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