Vladimir Mayakovsky







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    This evening was to decide
    were we to fall in love passionately?--
    it’s dark,
    no one would see us.
    I leaned over her actually,
    and actually,
    while
    I was leaning,
    I said to her
    like a kind father :
    “Emotions are steep like cliffs,--
    please,
    step away farther.
    Farther,
    step away, please.”


    Отношение к барышне

    Этот вечер решал —
    не в любовники выйти ль нам?—
    темно,
    никто не увидит нас.
    Я наклонился действительно,
    и действительно
    я,
    наклонясь,
    сказал ей,
    как добрый родитель:
    «Страсти крут обрыв —
    будьте добры,
    отойдите.
    Отойдите,
    будьте добры».


    Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920
    Translated by Andrey Kneller



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