“Upon the brink of the wild stream
He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.”

—  Aleksandr Pushkin , The Bronze Horseman

Original: (ru) ‎На берегу пустынных волн Стоял он, дум великих полн.
Source: The Bronze Horseman (1833) trans. Charles Johnston.

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