She richly sowed cornfields of life
with the years of her living,
Bowed low to the earth,
in the steppe gathered slow swaying grasses,
...
I flew off like a handsome devil
On my steed as black as night -
White foam fell from him like snow-flakes -
Ah!
...
From where the ages sleep
in tombs along the Nile,
From jungles tropical
where blooms the tamarisk -
...
The years now no longer speed by
as wild horses swift run,
Like camels in sands of Morocco they wander at leisureā¦
More easy to catch sincere lying that here so abounds,
...
I'd have always lain peaceful as ages past by,
Would have turned into dust long ago.
But a witch of a maid on the cliff poses high,
Tightly swathed by the winds that blow.
...
I am in debt,
that I was born Ukrainian:
That fate was in merry mood, when oft she sings,
And has bestowed on me the earth and water,
...
***
All around just as it should be:
evening falls, the distance fades.
...
On jagged rocks they bound him in duress:
The wrath of gods would brook no dispensation -
Because he gave, in throes of righteousness,
To people - Fire - but gave for good intentions.
...