MIKHAIL LVOV: "The Grateful Crow..."

"The Grateful Crow..."

The grateful Crow – he quietly takes
Out my hands and politely eats cakes:
Values my care and my whole grace.
But, if I perish in fight – on the place,
Crow, forgetting the past paradise,
Would soon pick out my eyes.


Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, July, 2001