What am I for, me, just a grain?
I'm living toiling hard with care,
For happiness I spend my life in vain,
I'm never pleased, weep on in my despair!
What do I seek? Do I want more?
Where is my place? What am I for?
There is a kin who die to seize
All proper answers in a blink.
But do I care?! Let them think
Of all as strictly as they please.
Unlearned /...nit/ I am to remain,
There's just a bit I need to know.
Like a blind man I am to go
By little steps my broken lane.
In laugh I'll join a merry-maker;
With beautiful I will be taken.
With the unhappy — cry with heart,
I'll search no more for what's my part...
Что, крошка мелкая, я значу?
Живу, заботливо тружусь,
В желанье счастья время трачу
И, вечно недовольный, плачу!
Чего ж ищу? к чему стремлюсь?
В какой стране, на что гожусь?
Есть люди: до смерти желают
Вопросы эти разгадать.
Но что до них! Пусть как хотят
О всём серьёзно рассуждают.
Я недоросль, я не мудрец,
И мне нужнее знать немного;
Шероховатою дорогой
Иду шажком я, как слепец;
С смешным сойдусь ли — посмеюсь;
С прекрасным встречусь — им пленюсь;
С несчастным от души поплачу,
И не стараюсь знать — что значу.
«It is a commonplace / And we all know / That flattery is base, / And mean, and low. / However, all in vain, / And flatterers were, are, and will remain. One day a Crow / Found luckily a decent piece / Of cheese, / After a long and forced fast. / To a big oak...»
«A weak one 's always guilty towards the strong. / In history, one finds a lot of illustrations. / Here, we proceed with these investigations, / And by a fable show, the thesis is not wrong. / / A Lamb, in a hot day, came to a brook to drink, / But, who could think, / ...»
«It is well known, / People always blame / Bad Fortune in their own / Problems, and each / Who 's not distinguished or rich, / Repeats the same. But Fortune is blind. / Knocking about the world, / Indeed, she 's very kind / To kings and lords. / And yet, one day / She also may ...»
«A playful Monkey, / With Billy Goat, / And a silly Toad / With clever Donkey, / One day, / All they / As a quartet intend to play. Some music they got: / Two violins, a bass, / A piano, and what not, / And all sat on the grass / To captivate, in part, / The Animals...»