Osip Mandelstam. (№ 367172)

Where a Roman judge judged a foreign nation,
Stands the Basilica, and, joyful and first,
Once Adam, respective nerves
Plays muscles cross the light roof.
But gives himself up outside a secret plan:
Here care arches force
To mass heavy wall is broken,
And daring set of idle RAM.
Elemental labyrinth, unfathomable forest,
Soul's rational abyss of the Gothic,
Egyptian power and Christian shyness,
With the next cane - oak, and everywhere the king - the plumb line.
But the closer, the stronghold of Notre Dame,
I have studied your monstrous edge,
The more I thought: from the infamous gravity
I'm a great create.