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 

• Наум Коржавин – Неужели птицы пели by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Нет! Так я просто не уйду во мглу by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Нелепые ваши затеи by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Не верь, что ты поэта шире by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Наверно, я не так на свете жил by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – На побывке by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – На друга-поэта by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Мой ритм заглох by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Мне без тебя так трудно жить by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Меня, как видно, Бог не звал by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Люди пашут каждый раз опять by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Ленинград by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Легкость by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Комиссары by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Кое-кому by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Как ты мне изменяла by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – К моему двадцатипятилетию by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Иван Калита by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Иль впрямь я разлюбил свою страну? by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Грустная самопародия by Поэзия На Русском

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

 

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