Читать книгу The Demon / Демон. Книга для чтения на английском языке - Михаил Лермонтов, Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов, M. Y. Lermontov - Страница 10

So now for the last time she danced

Alas! Tomorrow, she, the heir

Of old Gudaal, the daughter fair

Of liberty must bow her head

To a slave's fate like one entranced,

Adopt a country not her own,

A family she'd never known—

Often a secret doubt would shed

A shadow on her radiant face;

Yet all her movements were so free

Appealing, redolent of grace

So full of sweet simplicity

That, had the Demon soaring high

Above looked down and chanced to see…

Then, mindful of his former race,

He had turned from her – with a sigh…