"My dear,
Did you hear
Good news?!"
Running in
Said
The Mouse to the Rat,
"No more mews
We'll ever hear
Here.
I've seen
Myself, our Cat
Was by the Lion caught.
I am so glad!"
"In vain!
You'd better not",
The Rat replied,
"I've told you that
And say again
If they've just tried
To fight.
The Lion would be dead.
There's no beast more terrible than Cat!"
Many examples make it very clear,
And you yourself could notice this:
Whenever a coward is in fear
Of someone, then he thinks that everybody is.
«Соседка, слышала ль ты добрую молву?»
Вбежавши, Крысе Мышь сказала:—
«Ведь кошка, говорят, попалась в когти льву?
Вот отдохнуть и нам пора настала!» —
«Не радуйся, мой свет»,
Ей Крыса говорит в ответ:
«И не надейся попустому!
Коль до когтей у них дойдет,
То, верно, льву не быть живому:
Сильнее кошки зверя нет!»
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Я сколько раз видал, приметьте это сами:
Когда боится трус кого,
То думает, что на того
Весь свет глядит его глазами.
«I’m sad, because I love you way too much to bear, / And I’m aware: the baleful rumor mill won’t spare / Your blooming youth. And soon your destiny will reckon / Your recompense for all blithe days for all sweet seconds. / With bitter tears and rueful sorrow you’ll repay. / I am sa...»
«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. ...»
«I write for no quick reputation: / It is for fun, game, recreation, / For friends of mine, cute and sincere; / To mind the days that disappear.»
«Cease thy song, nightingale, / Here before my window! / Fly away, nightingale, / To my village grove. / And there light on the window / Of my sweetheart-love. / Sing to her there a song / Of my anguish, pain. / Say I wither, I die, / Here away from my lass, / As in autumn cold ra...»