<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=565988" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was granted by chance<br>With five horses at once<br>By my friend Lucifer and with ring, <br>Gold ring with a Ruby on it.<br>That for purpose to slip<br>Down into the deep<br>Of the caves, and to see<br>There young face of heavens within.<br>Snorting horses were hoofing, <br>Trying me thus to lure<br>To the vast space of earth race in fury...<br>And therefore I believed, <br>That a Sun inflamed me, <br>Only me, as a Ruby in ring.<br>Many a starry night<br>Did I rove, and many days, <br>Fired with sun's bright light, <br>And without the end<br>Of the way.<br>I've smiled to the impulse of mighty such horses, <br>I've enjoyed glint of ring, <br>I've rushed them to heaven -<br>There in height of the consciousness -<br>Only insanity. Snowfall there...<br>Cracking horses by whip, <br>I've forced them to raise..<br>There in heavens I've seen<br>Maid with a doleful face.<br>In her silent weak voice<br>I've heard chime of strings...<br>In her strange look - the choice<br>Questions-answers to join.<br>And I gave her a ring<br>To this Moon-like a Virgin<br>For unsteady fine tint <br>On the plaits incoherent.<br>Laughing, mocking at me, Lucifer after that<br>Let it open door to the darkness so deep.<br>And presented the six gift -<br>The another horse black...<br>The Despair - the name was of it...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Nikolai+Gumilyov">Nikolai Gumilyov</a>, translated by Lyudmila Purgina<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=565988" data-title="The Ballad de Nikolai Gumilyov" data-description="I was granted by chance With five horses at once By my friend Lucifer and with ring, Gold ring with a Ruby on it. That for purpose to slip Down into the deep Of the caves, and to see There young face of heavens within. Snorting horses were hoofin..."></div> </div> </div>

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