Зиновья Душкова – Песнь. Song (страница 22)

What for we are making them?

2. Why people can’t live right and fine,

Without big mistakes in life.

One grave and thoughtless step

Can frustrate our lifelong quest.

3. Which kind is better? Many small,

Or one major fault? Where are the toils?

But people can notice it at once,

And correct the misdeed in time

4. It is too painful to look at it,

How people are suffering by one hit.

Who can help them right,

For living an unerring life.

5. We can live fine, without some mistake?

Perhaps there is a man who did not make.

But he is holy may be, – sage,

Who knows all life-laws. Good that!

6. Mis-spent life is a fatal mistake.

How to correct it, when life comes to end?

What will you say there, – in the sky,

What for you lived with error of mind?

7. The sky can all forgive, but one,

Remember always, which was done

Against the sky’s will, it is a great sin —

To murder souls with sacred feelings.

8. Man must be gardener for all,

Best knowing, how flowers must be grown.

Man’s soul must be a flower garden,

Then never would mis-step have risen.

9. Can soulless by chance find himself very high?

Is it probable? – Without soul one can’t fly!

Many grave mistakes pull them down,

It’s hard to fly with mind unsound.

10. Can we see them, who rise in feelings?

Yes! They are shining stars. Look this!

Who there have been rising high?

The saints, who unerring love hold in mind.

Joy

1. What to say about joy, who doesn’t know

How joyful, unlike gloomy, looking sound.

Too many people joyless, very sad,

But joyful are in minority, but they are best.

2. Where does it come from, joy to the man?

Where are born the gladsome they?

All people born in one place,

Have differences very big among them.

3. At one place in one day are born

Few thousand infants, and are growing,

Together under the sky and star,

Which comes in the morning – the single Sun.

4. But why they grow up too diverse.

One Sun and earth, bring up some kinds.

One part gladsome, look, they are rising,

But other kind without joy… They come to nothing!

5. What for are existing the joyful, guess?

They give to men, are helping? – Yes!

Without joy we can’t live fine,

And never know the happy climb.

6. All people happiness want to find.

But happy day will come, do wait

With joyful feeling. End happy

With gloomy and murderous thoughts can’t be.

7. Joy has been leaving the man, when

There is nothing to gain. Can’t find

Among the worthless true joy,