A brief moment rules a smart,
A fool knows all from reading.
Smart and fool are always apart,
Smart is weight, and fool is clothing!
Умным правит краткий миг
глупый знает все из книг
Умный глупому не пара
Умный груз, а глупый тара.
«Then a friendship, now a duty. / Brother wolf, God be with you! / Our friendship is now dying: / I'm not gift but debt for you. Disturb a verst with a verst, / Send a verst into a verst! / I have petted on a fur — / And I have been missing angst! I'm not making you a villain — / ...»
«Your banners — not mine! / Our heads apart. / Not to betray in the Snake's vice / My Pigeon — Spirit. Not to start in a red round dance / Around a May tree. / Higher than all earthly gates / Are heaven's gates to me. Your victories — and not mine! / Others in hallucination! /...»
«O love! O love! In the convulsions, in the coffin, / I'll be on guard — entice — worry — and tear. / Not in the snow mound of the coffin, nor a snow mound / Of cloud, I will part with you, O my dear. And not for this are given to me gorgeous / Two wings that weight upon my heart wou...»
«Either at dawn or at dusk, I will die, but on which / One of the two - can't be told from the orders, I know. / Ah, could it be that my torch could go out twice again! / At the same time at dusk and at dawn it would go! Heaven's daughter! With a full apron of roses! Not a sprout / Violatin...»