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# And flowers, and bumblebees, and grass, and ears of corn, And azure sky, and noonday heat…
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/i-tsvety-i-shmeli-i-trava-i-kolosia-i-lazur-i-poludennyi-znoi/
- Published: 2025-11-07T05:25:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:28:08.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Faith, Books, Nature

And flowers, and bumblebees, and grass, and ears of corn, And azure sky, and noonday heat… The hour will come, and the Lord will ask the prodigal son: “Were you happy in your life on earth?”  
And I shall forget everything, remembering only these Field paths between the ears of corn and the grasses, And through sweet tears I shall not manage to answer, Having fallen at the merciful knees.

**Ivan Bunin, 1918**

*The illustration is taken from the book “The Images of the Gods of the Ancients” by the Italian poet Vincenzo Cartari, 1608*