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Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921.

July 14, at Night

Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873)

NOT yet cooled, the windless night

Of July shone strangely still.

Earth lay dim, and fitful light

In the skyey, storm-filled height

Trembled over field and hill.

So might lidded eyes unclose,

And between vast lashes burn

Glances flaming and morose,

Over earth’s remote repose,

Mute as lightning, swift and stern.