By Alexander Blok
The deuces tell:
Be sinful, while you're excited
With innocent your's, but the sins,
While a beauty is attracted, smiling,
Conjured by your poems.
For fun, for consolation now -
Drink wine again, the sparkling beverage.
While this wine you do like, while it now
Doesn't bother you and give you sadness.
And if the eyes flash with the insolence-
You shouldn't deny their sparkling light,
Whispering to sins, to wine, to passion
The Amen words, in night delight.
Because you know - the fascination
Will come to end, and in crazy hour,
You, being in repentance frenzied,
Will curse all us, the poor us.
And you'll begin to fall - in a crowd
We'll, as the angels pure, fly
And catch you up, that's in the order
To keep you safe from the stones sharp...
10 dec 1913