A. S. Pushkin. To Mary

                (After Barry Cornwell)


                          Here's a health to thee, Mary


              Mary's health I toast more,
              Dear Mary girl of mine.
              Closed silently a door,
              No gests with us to dine,
              Mary's health I toast more.


              There're many finer women,
              That is Mary girl of mine,
              This is little peri for men.
              But more dear in a love
              Pretty Mary is a one.


              Happy days to you, nice Mary,
              You're fair sun in my life!
              Be no anguish and no dreary
              No in abhorent no day
              In thy life, o dear Mary.


              1830


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           Translated by Vаsiliy Panchenko, 2012