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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 45477 |
| QUOTATION: | There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended— Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me, A sinner. Not without purpose did the Lord Put me to witness much for many years And educate me in the love of books. One day some indefatigable monk Will find my conscientious, unsigned work; Like me, he will light up his ikon-lamp And, shaking from the scroll the age-old dust, He will transcribe these tales in all their truth. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russian poet. Father Pimen, in Boris Godunov, prologue, sct. 5, l. 18-28 (1825), trans. by Philip L. Barbour (1953). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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