Source: http://kharkov.vbelous.net/english/sculptor/candle28.htm;
Written: 1941 - 1943;
Transcribed: for marxists.org in January, 2002.
To ward off the awful spider's paw
creeping
Over marble of any human sacred place,
To save the world, the planet
from this plague -
That's humanism!
And that is what we are keeping.