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Translation:God is right ...

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God is right ... (1918)
by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated from Russian by Wikisource
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God is right
By grasses that blight,
By rivers that dry,
The crippled that cry

By grief and by havoc,
By thief and by Herod,
By bale and by hunger,
By hail and by thunder

By year of the treason,
By Word, held unreasoned,
By King, now imprisoned,
By nation arisen