Valery Bryusov To the young poet

ВАЛЕРИЙ БРЮСОВ
‘ЮНОМУ ПОЭТУ’
 VALERY BRYUSOV
‘TO THE YOUNG POET’

Fervently-looking young friend with face pallid,
Here, I give you a pledge of three session:
First is: don’t live within verge of the present,
Only the future’s – the poet’s possession.

Second is: never indulge to compassion,
Love yourself first with no bound of a limit;
Third one: do worship just art with no ratio,
Treasure it  boldly, with wandering passion.

Pallid-faced friend with a sight most bewildered,
If you accept given pledge of three session,
Shall I then fall, as a warrior defeated,
Knowing: I’m leaving a bard on this planet. 


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