transparent, unknown shadows
Thee float, and you swim with them,
In the embrace of azure dreams,
unintelligible to us, - You give Himself.
Before You turn blue without borders
Seas, fields, and mountains, and forests,
Echo heights in the free bird,
the mist rises, aleyut heaven.
And here, down below, in the dust, in dishonor,
Seeing a moment immortal lines,
unknown slave, full of inspiration,
you sing. You do not know him,
You can not tell him in the crowd People,
No reward his smile,
When vosled looks, nesvobodnыy,
Having tasted a moment of your immortality.
3 July 1901