Dedicated to Marina Vladi
Here the branches of spruces are trembling aweigh
Here the birds are chirping anxiously
You live in a bewitched wild forest,
And it’s impossible to escape from there.

Let the bird-cherries are drying like a laundry in the wind
Let the the flowers of lilacs are falling like a rain
Anyway I will take you from there
To the palace, where the flutes play

Your world is hidden from me and from the light
By the sorcerers for thousands years
And you think that there’s nothing more beautiful
than that bewitched forest.

Let there won’t be the dew on the leaves in the morn
Let the moon will be at loggerheads with the overcast skies
Anyway I will take you from there
To the light tower-room with a view of the sea

At what day of the week, at what time of the day
You’ll go out to me gently?..
When I will take you away on my hands
To the place where no one can find you?..

I will steal you if you don’t mind to be stolen, -
Have I wasted so much efforts in vain?
You should agree at least for love in the cottage
If the tower-room and the palace are occupied by someone!