They christened us in the same tub,
They wed us with the same wreath,
They tortured us in the same jail,
They branded us with the same iron.
They will build us the same house.
They will cover us with the same mound.
Крестили нас — в одном чану,
Венчали нас — одним венцом,
Томили нас — в одном плену,
Клеймили нас — одним клеймом.
Поставят нам — единый дом.
Прикроют нас — одним холмом.
«We live just as in a dream impenetrable / on one of the comfortable planets... / There are so many things we don't need, / and that which we want doesn't exist.»
«Moon shadows — shadows of sorrow — / Stumble about as a quiet herd, / Wearing black, like grief, earth's cover, / Tramping a ghostly hidden path. They lovingly and gently rocked many, / And sensitively gave reflections back. / Moon shadows, shadows of sorrow, / Endlessly repeating m...»
«Poeza Mignonette And it passed by the sea-shore, where the foam-laces flower, / Where the city barouches only rarely are seen... / There the queen played her Chopin in the high palace tower, / And there, listening to Chopin, the young page loved the queen. And what passed there was ...»
«Lace and roses in the forest morning shine, / Shrewdly the small spider climbs his cobweb line. Dews are diamonding and blooming faery-bright. / What a golden air! What beauty! Oh, what light! It is good to wander through the dawn-shot rye, / Good to see a bird, a toad, a dragon-fly; Hear t...»