From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   To you – crown of thorns; of roses – to your fathers    
   To you – an empty jug, to fathers – wine.    
   For their transgressions you have fallen martyr,    
   O the dauphine tormented at the dawn!    
      
   Not rotten fruit – a flower, unlived, fresh one,    
   The people's anger stomped into the mire.    
   All children have the same expression:    
   Such inexpressible and tender eyes!    
      
   You've smoked as from a pipe, the heir, the prince, with    
   In your curls, skullcaps of the mutineers;    
   With ruddy wine the pinkish lips were filthy,    
   Shoemaker's fist was beating the dauphine.    
      
   Where is the proud shine of centuries gloried?    
   Everything vanished, into dust and soil!    
   For all of it the little children suffered:    
   A baby-prince and curly-headed girl.   
      
   The final moment of the parting's here.    
   Hold! Someone's song! It is the angel chorus...    
   And you spread out the arm that grow weaker    
   There where there's shelter for the travelers.    
      
   On distant journey credulously departing,    
   You understood, O prince, wherefore we cry,    
   And know, as you to a dear song you slumber,    
   That you'll awake a monarch in the sky.   
      
   By Marina Tsvetayeva   
   Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)