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Marina Tsvetaeva

“Кровных коней запрягайте в дровни!
Графские вина пейте из луж!
Единодержцы штыков и душ!
Распродавайте — на вес — часовни,
Монастыри — с молотка — на слом.
Рвитесь на лошади в Божий дом!
Перепивайтесь кровавым пойлом!

Стойла — в соборы! Соборы — в стойла!
В чертову дюжину — календарь!
Нас под рогожу за слово: царь!

Единодержцы грошей и часа!
На куполах вымещайте злость!
Распродавая нас всех на мясо,
Раб худородный увидит — Расу:
Черная кость — белую кость.

Москва. 2 марта 1918
Первый день весны.




Harness your thoroughbreds to the sledges!
Drink the counts' wines while the gutter rolls!
Rulers of bayonets and of souls!
Sell off your chapels - by weight - your churches,
monasteries - auction them all - for scrap.

Burst in the Lord's house on horse-back!
Lap up the red trough for all you're able!

Stables - in churches! Churches - to stables!
Calendar - devil's own dozen too far!
Ours is the grave for one word: tsar!

Rulers of currency and time-keeping!
Vent on the cupolas all your spite!
When they start selling our flesh for eating,
menial slaves will discover - breeding:
black bones descry - bones that are white.

Moscow, 9 March 1918
First day of spring

Marina Tsvetaeva, The Demesne of the Swans
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The Demesne of the Swans The Demesne of the Swans by Marina Tsvetaeva
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