Svatovstvo k Ehmer.

Pozvol'te nachinat'. Odna iz nix
Sposobna shit'. Lico ee svetlo.
K nej pod`ezzhaet carstvennyj zhenix.
Pryzhok lososya, yasnoe chelo.

K nej pod`ezzhaet. --- "Bog tebya smyagchit."
V otvet on ej: --- "Spasenie ot zla."
--- "Otkuda pribyl?" --- "Proveli my noch'
U Pastuxa Velikogo Kozla."

--- "Chto vy tam eli?" --- "Ostov topora,
Sup iz telegi, golovu orla
Stixi druidov Ajlilya i Medb (*)
I potroxa Velikogo Kozla."

--- "Kakoj dorogoj?" --- "Mezhdu dvux xolmov,"
--- "A dal'she?" --- "Iz Velikoj T'my
Po vyazkoj pene dvux nochej Ehmajn
I po zhelezu kamennoj spiny
Zheny Fejdel'ma, po xrebtu svin'i,
Mezh bogom i providcem, kabanom
I kabanixoj, slugoj i gospodinom
I v Monkuille, u uglov zemli."

21.11.88
(*) A grammar notice. Druids are usually nameless, so it never occured to me that someone might mistake ``Ajlilya i Medb'' for the names of druids. Ajlil and Medb are King and Queen of appropriate land, and druids are their property.

Same poem in KOI8.
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