M.Lermontov, Stances -1 – 2 Variants Of Translation (Rus.)

Running in mind along the chain
Of former years, of the past;
I don’t regret of anything like that,
Because now it’d lost the chance
To sweeten soul; all is soaked
With passions, and the evil blizzards
Has covered all; as a forgotten cross
It stands in steppe without reason.
The answer for my highest love
I vainly asked for by my soul.
And if now I’m singing, that’s a sign
Of that it was my dream, although.
As meteor it flashed above
In my eyes in the former twilight,
And, being earthly, it got down,
As earth, deceived my eyes entirely.

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The instant look on chain of life,
On the events of past – the answer would be –
I’m not at least sticked to that rhyme:
It wasn’t sweet, it was a beat.

As nowaday, it’s watered with
A storm of passions, and the blizzards
All covered it with the snow drifts,
As cross in desert’s covered thickly.

A thirst for answer for my love
I vainly waited for a moment.
And while I’m singing of this one –
That’s only from dream in soul.

It blinked as meteor in sky,
In evening darkness my eyes catching.
And, being earthly, it was lie,
Being all to me – it was just playing.