Танцующие на свечах [Tantsuyushchie na svechakh] [English translation]

The sun that is granting a shade

In time 'f ceremonial leisure,

And ashes content with their faith

That they will receive resurrection,

And faces of iron chimeras,

Age-frozen on their shoulders.

And barefoot heavenly angels,

That keep dancing on burning candles,

And brittle stone walls of the houses,

That turned more transparent than ice.

And white flock of pale apparitions,

That is gone without a trace,

And wild avid fire that's forgotten

From where it ought to start,

And barefoot heavenly angels,

Still dancing on bright burning candles.