All pity you: you’re so tired! You didn’t want at all to dance – And spent all night in dancing mire! Wasn’t it so good to stop at last? But if men rightly could distinguish Your mind and goodness of your words, -- I swear by timelessness of gods – Mazurkas will be quite extinguished. Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, November, 2000 Edited by Dmitry Karshtedt, June, 2001