F: Snegourka, The Snow Maiden Poem by Margaret Alice

The Snow Maiden will melt,
don’t send the Snow
Maiden outside;

spring arrives with
thawing of ice;
keep the Snow Maiden inside
in the coolness of home;
body of ice,
don’t send her
outside to play,
singing and dancing in spring
with garlands of flowers will
end everything;

Snegourka ~ made of
snow, born of fairy sorcery;
she'll cry when
the snow stops falling – look in
her eyes; see the fear, don’t force
her; she will melt without snow,
keep her here, in the coldness
of home, far from the sun
– but they sent her forth with
the other young maidens to play;
in sadness the young girls returned.
Where is Snegourka, her mother
anxiously asked;
melted!
cried her friends,
where she had been ~ only
a pool of water;
oh no! anguished mother cried
and fell in pain;
Snegourka, her loved
one, the child of her heart,
forever gone…