N. Tenigina

N. TENIGINA: "Let the World Lie..."

"Let the World Lie..."

(From Omar Khayyam)

Let the world lie, submissive, before the shah’s eyes,
Let Hell be for the bad, for the good – Paradise,
Let the angels have beads, heavens bushes – their freshness…
Only give to a man the sweet woman he loves!


Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, February, 2003

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