Insanely I Desire To Live

Insanely I desire to live: 
All that exists - immortalize, and 
All that is faceless - humanize, and 
The non-existing: To fulfil!  

Let breathe existence's heavy slumber, 
And let me strangled by it be - 
Perhaps sometime a happy young one 
Will in the future speak of me:  

Forgive the gloom - is that, forsooth, the 
True hidden engine that's in him? 
He - is the child of light and goodness, 
He - is the triumph of liberty! 

By Alexander Blok
Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat 
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