"Солнце, сожги настоящее Во имя грядущего, Но помилуй прошедшее!"
— Nikolai Gumilev

January 1, 1970

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"Prayer", Pearls (1907–1910), Richard McKane, tr. The Pillar of Fire and Selected Poems (1999), p. 65, Burton Raffel & Alla Burago, tr. Selected Works of Nikolai S. Gumilev (1972), p. 44