A Prayer

Spirit and Breath of Life, whate’er Thy name!

Bear with Thy creature, Man,

That makes his dwelling-place a blot of shame

Upon the Ordered Plan.

Not Thy hand, O Divine Designer, hurled

Athwart the starlit skies

One blood-stained, greed-diseased, hate-eaten world,

To shock celestial eyes.

Not Thy default, O Beautiful, this crust

Of fratricidal crime,

These maggot-breeds of hunger and of lust

That Thy fair work begrime.

But ours, who mock Thee from the highest place,

And in the light of day;

Who claim to lead an upward-struggling race,

And will not seek the way.

Guards of the human birthright, at Thy call-

A city sacked and burned;

Guards of the house that is the home of all,

But whence the weak are spurned.

Brothers, to whom the outcast brothers cry

As with a voice unknown;

Stewards of Nature’s bounty, that deny

The lawful heirs their own.

Thou that hast made us men, and earth so fair,

To be so vilely used,

Give space for late repentance and repair

Of sacred trust abused.

Give time, Eternal, that we stanch these tears,

Give time to heal this sore,

That our brief speck amid the shining spheres

Disgrace its birth no more.

But sail ethereal seas, an orb of light,

To bear Thy purpose on

Until it fades into the cosmic night

Where the dead worlds have gone.

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Poems in English 

• Оливер Голдсмит – Пыл упований людям дан by Oliver Goldsmith
• Оливер Голдсмит – Послание в прозе и стихах by Oliver Goldsmith
• Оливер Голдсмит – Подношение by Oliver Goldsmith
• Оливер Голдсмит – Песенка by Oliver Goldsmith
• Оливер Голдсмит – Опровержение логики by Oliver Goldsmith
• Оливер Голдсмит – Оленья туша by Oliver Goldsmith
• Оливер Голдсмит – Каждому по заслугам by Oliver Goldsmith
• Оливер Голдсмит – Эпитафия Неду Пардону by Oliver Goldsmith
• Ольга Высотская – Звёздочки by Ольга Высоцкая
• Ольга Высотская – Здравствуй, праздник by Ольга Высоцкая
• Ольга Высотская – Я зубы стисну, губы закушу by Ольга Высоцкая
• Ольга Высотская – Волны by Ольга Высоцкая
• Ольга Высотская – Веселый поезд by Ольга Высоцкая
• Ольга Высотская – Снежный кролик by Ольга Высоцкая
• Ольга Высотская – Первые заморозки by Ольга Высоцкая
• Ольга Высотская – Обидчивая кукушка by Ольга Высоцкая
• Ольга Высотская – Гости by Ольга Высоцкая
• Ольга Высотская – Ежик by Ольга Высоцкая
• Ольга Высотская стихи: лучшие стихотворения для детей Высотской – Poetry Monster by Ольга Высоцкая
• Ольга Высотская – Детский сад by Ольга Высоцкая

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Russian Commerce Agency

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Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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