Hurl down into the faces of the thieves

The blaze of its intolerable light....

Fail not, for in your failure Freedom fails!

A Bargain

Scoffer, you cry, “Where is your ‘other world,’

Your fabled heaven in far eternities?”

Well said, but first, before your lip is curled,

Tell (’tis a little thing) where this world is!

“Inasmuch....”

Wild tempest swirled on Moscow’s castled height;