ALEXANDR PUSHKIN: The Tokens of Superstition
The Tokens of Superstition
I drove to you: my dreams were bright
And winding behind me like playing;
The crescent, set on my right side,
Was gaily following my traveling.
I drove back: my dreams were blind,
My loving soul was in sadness;
The crescent, set on my left side,
Was accompanying me – the hapless.
Thus, in a silence, every bard
Falls in his dreams’ eternal vision;
Thus tokens of superstition,
Well-coincide with moods of heart.
Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, March 6, 2003