N. TENIGINA: "Live In Good..."

"Live In Good..."

(From Omar Khayyam)
Live in good; be with all, that you have, satisfied,
Live in ease, for your freedom and honor keep fight.
Don’t be sorry, don’t envy to one, who is richer:
They, more poor than you, swarm like stars in the night.


Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, February, 2003