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And yet my mind commands the thunder
My body sinks to endless slumber,
and yet my mind commands the thunder,
a king - a slave - a worm - a god!
Gavrila Derzhavin
Excerto do poema God
in Chapter I - The Eighteenth Century
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry - edited by Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski