BE CALM

B. SLUTSKY

Translated from Russian by G. K. G. Joshi

While

Gnashing one’s teeth

Be calm;

History is patience,

Great like Siberia.

Not demonstrating pain

And panic......not this.

The road to happiness

Is longer than Yenessei,

And all the men

Will reach.....arrive,

Reach the shore:

Yet in the twentieth century

As march while living.

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