Welcoming Lengtentima (Lententime/Spring) - 2017

‘First Leaves’

By Fyodor Tyutchev

The youthful leaf is greening,

See how the birches swaying

With youthful leaves stand tall,

Their gossamer green translucent,

Pellucid, transparent, like smoke.

Long were they dreaming of spring,

Of spring and golden summer,

And now these vivid dreams

Burst sudden into light

Beneath the first blue sky.

O beauty of first leaves,

Bathed in the rays of the sun,

With their shadows newly born!

Their movements let us know

That in this myriad darkness

Not one dead leaf exists.

Source:  Poems & Political Letters of F. I. Tyutchev, trans. Zeldin, U. of Tenn. Press, 1973, p. 82

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