performance: Vasilis M. Militsis

 

Exegi Monumentum. *

For me a monument I was preparing for a manoeuvre
that the walked grass road would not get out
of Alexander the obelisk unrelenting **
higher raised his head.

No, I will not lose myself, thanks to my lyre the renowned
my soul the spot will overtake and my rot will be extinguished,
and I will be famous in the world,
even a poet if I live.

My reputation will be spread out in the rugged country of Russia,
and every tongue that speaks for it will make a subject,
and the proud descendant of Slav, and the son of Finland,
and the primitive Tungus, and Kalik, the steppe hog.

For a long time, I will be so beloved that I will stand up for the right people
as much as with my Lyra feelings of good alight wake-up,
as in our hard age the freedom I will prize
and the indulgence of the blame I will ask for.

In the divine commandment, my muse, obey,
insult not afraid, laurels do not ask,
pause and censure indifferent to listen and to the heresy of the holy never to miss.
(1836)

* Monument erected (Latin): An outline from the works of Horatius (65-8 BC).
Alexander’s Column: A column in honor of King Alexander I in St. Petersburg Square.

The Alexander Pushkin Sergkegievits (1799-1837) glorified early in life as a poet and is among the writers who have renewed Russian literature. He lost his life by his heavy injury to a duel.

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