Perhaps all this is trifles, And the main thing, the very main thing, Which is more terrible even than mortal anguish, Is coarseness of spirit, coarseness of matter, Coarseness of life, of love, of everything; Coarseness of the native she-beast, the U.S.S

Perhaps all this is trifles,
And the main thing, the very main thing,
Is that which is more terrible even than mortal anguish:
Coarseness of spirit, coarseness of matter,
Coarseness of life, of love, of everything;
Coarseness of the native she-beast, the U.S.S.R., –
Coarseness, savagery – and in them, triumph.
Perhaps everything will be resolved, will come untied?
Lord, I do not know Your will.
Where am I to judge? And yet it seems
The world might have been made more tenderly.

Literal translation

Good, evil, worthless, glorious. Dmitry Merezhkovsky