Zinaida Gippius

ZINAIDA GIPPIUS: So It Is

So It Is

1918

If light is felled – I am able to see nothing,
If a man is a beast – I hate him and scorn,
If he’s worse than beasts – I kill him, laughing,
If my Russia is over – I die and I mourn.  


Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, November, 2000

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