Про чертиков [Pro chertikov] [English translation]

Pain delineates the Eden with floriferous lush shrubs

Wolves are howling, winds are carrying, demons know, demons bunk

They'll be digging with their horns a great pit till the morning shift

They'll be working to protect the slopes with wooden aprons

As with horns to hit the gates, and as with legs to kick the flanks

As with bread and salt to slaughs, as with jelly to stream banks

There's a house behind the river, it has a ground-floor grog shop

Here's a man in a green coat - he is going just right there

Toss two coins by splashing out - they'll fall both eagles1 up

Hens picked both of the eagles - and they've got a stomachache

Thuswise all the troubles vanished, thus we've known what is what

Why the white worm crawled slowly and across the cabbage leaf

A white tiny steamer crawled right across the vasty deep

Eyes stuck to the round port-lights - oh, the gulls, what do they do?!

Oh, there are sunshiny fishes - but the head is in a swim

But it seems that it is going - farther-deeper

Farther-deeper, farther-closer to the start and to the end

You'd stop carrying on this way, you should manage not to die

We will see together shortly how the land is being born

By a newborn rocky solid, a new era, a new day

Bah, a woman's carrying out pretty toys in her handbag

And the baby is in hospital, he's dying, almost dead

He'd been fed up with the wide world, with a smile he went away

He has never realized that in truth all will be o'key

Hey you, torn away, and derelict, a self-sufficient man

Through the broken teeth an expuition's bursting out - "phooey!"

Not for lunch, nor to a table, neither to a Holy See

Neither in the pillory, nor into the frontier belt

Wolves are howling, winds are blowing, demons carry, people bunk

Pain embellishes the Eden with floriferous green shrubs

1. "eagle" means the head of a coin