Cross-firing behind the hills:
Both camps watch, theirs and ours;
In front of Cossaks on the hill
Dashes 'long brave Delibash
O Delibash, not to the line come nigh,
Do have mercy on thy life;
Quick 't is over with thy frolic bold,
Pierced thou by the spear shalt be
Hey, Cossak, not to battle rush
The Delibash is swift as wind;
Cut he will with crooked sabre
From thy shoulders thy fearless head.
They rush with yell: are hand to hand;
And behold now what each befalls:
Already speared the Delibash is
Already headless the Cossak is!
Перестрелка за холмами;
Смотрит лагерь их и наш;
На холме пред казаками
Вьется красный делибаш.
Делибаш! не суйся к лаве,
Пожалей свое житье;
Вмиг аминь лихой забаве:
Попадешься на копье.
Эй, казак! не рвися к бою:
Делибаш на всем скаку
Срежет саблею кривою
С плеч удалую башку.
Мчатся, сшиблись в общем крике.
Посмотрите! каковы?....
Делибаш уже на пике,
А казак без головы.
«And beyond the barbed wire, / In the very heart of the dense taiga — / I don't know what year it is —, / Having become a handful of camp dust, / Having become a legend from a terrible true story, / My double goes to an interrogation. / And then it conies from the interrogation, / W...»
«A shameless thing, of every vileness capable, / It is as drab as dust, as earthly dust. / I perish of a nearness inescapable; / Its fatal coils about my limbs are thrust. A shaggy poulp, embracing me, and pricking me, / And as a serpent cold against my heart, / Its branching scales are po...»
«Thou queen of all serenity, / Soul of my soul, most chaste, / I summon thee, divinity, / I summon thee, make haste! But to the tryst thy offering / Shall not be brought alone. / My guilt will come, my suffering, / My sin will lift its moan. Before thy heart insulted so, / In shame my...»
«He came to me — I don't know who he is. / He encircled me within a ring. / He said that I don't know who he is, / But he hid his face behind a cape. I begged him to tarry longer, / To step back, not touch me, and to wait. / If he only could but tarry longer / And not enclose me within...»