Bronze Horseman Video (MV)

There, on the marge so desolate
He stood, with mighty thoughts elate
And sorry skiff
Of Neva drifted seaward!
The moss-grown miry bank with rare
Hovels were dotted here and there
The murm'ring woodlands
On sunshine, all in misty shroud

O' sunshine higher, in misty shroud
The statue's rising o'er nations' crowd
Here

And thus He mused
"From here, indeed
Shall we strike terror
Onto the Swede?"
And here a city
By our labour
Founded, shall gall
Our haughty neighbour
"Here cut" - so Nature gives command
"Your window through
On Europe; stand!

Gem of the North, amazing
In pride and splendour blazing
Where once, low-lying shore
In waters never known 'fore
Those shores, astir with motion
And towers on the ocean
The Neva's clad in granite
With bridge to overspan it

Islands lie beneath a screen
Of gardens
Deep in dusky green of waters
Silent
That you eye!

I love thy stone harmonies so austere
Along your glum banks of granite sheer
Thy tracery irony gates and your sparkling
And thy transparent twilight darkling

"The Bronze Horseman
Thou art the guard of burg!"

Smoke from thy forts: thy booming gun
Empire holds its celebration
Now, Petersburg, stand thou fast
Foursquare vaunt thy nation's splendour!

So we sing the hosanna
To the city of sea
This ain't fata morgana
But the autocracy
For Ye!
Our legacy!