Esperanza by Maxim Gorky
There will come a time, I know,
When people will take delight in one another.
When each will be a star to the other
And when each will listen to their fellow as if to music.
The free ones will walk upon the Earth,
People great in their freedom.
They will walk with open hearts
And the hearts of each will be free of envy and greed
And for those, all humankind will be without malice
And there will be nothing to divorce the heart from the head.
....then life will be one great service to Humanity.
Their figures will be raised to lofty heights.
For to free people all heights are attainable!
Then we shall live, in truth, in freedom and in beauty.
And those will be accounted the best:
Who will the more widely embrace the World with their heart.
And whose love of it will be the profoundest - those will be the best
Those will be the best who will be freest - for in them is the greatest beauty.
And the people will be great who live that life.
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