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Quotation by Alexander Blok
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"On the Field of Kulikovo" (1908), trans. by Vladimir Markov and Merril Sparks (1966)"The Twelve" (1918), trans. by Gerard Shelley (1942)The TwelveRelated Subjects
The bourgeois stands like a question mark,
Speechless, like the hungry cur,
The ancient world stands there behind him,
A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.
Speechless, like the hungry cur,
The ancient world stands there behind him,
A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.
Alexander Blok (1880–1921), Russian poet. "The Twelve," sct. 9 (1918), trans. by Gerard Shelley (1942).
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