No more Europe, no more America.
The end of Tsarskoye, of Moscow, too.
A fit of nuclear hysteria –
life atomized into a radiant blue.
Transparent, all-forgiving haze will stretch
over the seas. And he who could have done
something yet chose not to, will be left
in the expanse of pre-eternity, alone.
by Георгий Владимирович Иванов (Georgii Vladimirovich Ivanov)
(1953)
by Robert Chandler
Rambling At The Bridge Head 