TOLSTOY

You express in giant snows
from old droskys
       spin drifts of stories
  off the Russian heartland
           from great novels we bless
your century's achievement
   on a silent road to progress
and  experience  the freshness
     of young pure  seedless  souls                                                      
channeling characters
  of a new splendor
breathing the genius for passion
  of planted fulfillment
  to honor and honor.