Jan 30, 2021
... Blessed is he who visited this world in its moments of unruly destiny! For he was summoned by the gods to partake in their revels; A witness to their mighty deeds, Admitted to their innermost thoughts, He drinks immortal life from heaven's very chalice
Fyodor Tyutchev (Cicero)
Tyutchev was writing during the 1825 Decembrist Revolt, one of the most turbulent periods of Tsarist Russian history. They ring true now.