Читать книгу The Demon / Демон. Книга для чтения на английском языке - Михаил Лермонтов, Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов, M. Y. Lermontov - Страница 8

In austere silence heretofore

The house has looked across the valleys;

But now wide open stands the door

Gudaal holds feast to mark the marriage

Of his Tamara: now the wine

Flows freely and the zurna[4] skirts;

The clan is gathered round to dine

And on the roof-top, richly spread

With orient rugs, the promised bride

Sits all amongst her laughing girls:

In games and songs their time is sped

And merriment. Beyond the hills

The semicircle of the sun

Has sunk already. Now the fun

Crows fast and furious. Now the steady

Rhythmic clapping and the singing

The bride brings to her feet, poised ready,

Her tambourine above her head

Is circling, she herself goes winging

Bird-light above rug, then stops,

Looks round, and lets her lashes drop

That envious hide her shining glance;

And now she raises raven brows,

Now suddenly sways forward slightly

Her slender foot peeps out, and lightly

It slides and swims into the dance;

And see she smiles – a joyous gleam

Aglow with childish merriment.

And yet… the white moon's sportive beam

In rippling water liquid bent

With such a smile could scarce compare

More live than life, than youth more fair.