Ivan Krylov
The Waterfall and the Spring

A boiling Waterfall, once, dashing from the rock,
Addressed to a salubrious Spring below with a talk:
"In grass you're hardly seen, your murmur is not loud,
So how you succeed attracting this huge crowd?
Why do they come to you? I'don't know what to think."
"For treatment", quietly said the Spring.

Translated by Alec Vagapov