two Blok poems

[Valentino, Russell]

A student of mine gave me a couple of Blok poem translations that I thought were very good, but I'm an ocean away from my collected Blok now and can't find the originals online to check them. If anyone recognizes these, I'd be very grateful for the help in tracking down the sources. The first stanza of poem one (in translation) is this:


"I while away my life,

idiotic, heedless life:

Today in sober exultation,

Tomorrow tears and song."

And the second one, begins like this:


"Gray evening light lay

On the pale city in spring.

A car sang from far away
Into a victory horn."

I think they're both from 1910.

Thanks very much in advance.

Russell Valentino

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