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This morning's sunrise over Samara, Russia
Why has the voice of gaiety fallen silent?
Resound, bacchanalian refrains!
A toast to the tender maidens
And youthful women who loved us!
Pour fuller the glass!
Against the clinking bottom
Into the thick wine
Cast the ritual rings!
Let us raise glasses, let's move them together!
A toast to the Muses, a toast to reason!
Glow thou, oh sacred sun!
As this candelabrum pales
Before the bright rise of the dawn,
Thus false cleverness flickers and fades
Before the deathless sun of the mind.
Long live the sun, let darkness vanish!
Aleksandr Pushkin, The Bacchic Song
The last line of The Bacchic Song was also used on a famous 1921 Soviet propaganda poster to encourage literacy among the peasant classes.