<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341174" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Memorial</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beyond compare the monument I have erected,<br>And to this spirit column well-worn the people's path,--<br>Its head defiant will out-soar that famous pillar<br>The Emperor Alexander hath!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shall not vanish wholly,--No! but young forever<br>My spirit will live on, within my lyre will ring,<br>And men within this world shall hold me in remembrance<br>While yet one Singer lives to sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My glory shall in future fly through distant Russia,<br>Each race in its own tongue shall name me far and wide,<br>The Slav, the Finn, the Kalmyk, all shall know me--<br>The Tungoose in his reindeer hide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Among my people I shall be long loved and cherished,<br>Because their noblest instincts I have e'er inflamed,<br>In evil hours I lit their hearts with fires of freedom,<br>And never for their pleasures blamed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Muse, pursue the calling of thy Gods forever!<br>Strive not for the garland, nor look upon the pain--<br>Unmoved support the voice of scorn or of laudation,<br>And argument with Fools disdain!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alexander+Sergeyevich+Pushkin">Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341174" data-title="The Memorial de Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin" data-description="Beyond compare the monument I have erected, And to this spirit column well-worn the people's path,-- Its head defiant will out-soar that famous pillar The Emperor Alexander hath! I shall not vanish wholly,--No! but young forever My spirit will li..."></div> </div> </div>

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