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How are you getting on my dear friend And how is your school? What other interests do you have And how are the bees doing? I'm at a sunset of my age Fell in love with this small creature And gave it my heat and my soul And found my comfort in it. A man is a child how old he is And he passes his life in playing Sometimes crying and sometimes laughing He changes his games very often I used to be a fisherman Now I am a beekeeper, Wish I could prosper and become wealthy I bought piles of books Written by the brightest men And I am studying them all day and all night Potehin, Butlerov, Bertran, Langstrot, Dubinin, Prokopovich These are the apostles of beekeeping When I have some spare time I read their works Dreaming about bee swarms in summer With great patience I was sitting by the hive Waiting for swarming It is about to swarm And the hope makes me feel calm Wow! Terrible noise in the hive And the bees swarm is flying out the hive Shall I spray water over them So that they don't fly into the sky But I'd better not take a risk So that not to interfere into nature's way I'll wait until it finishes What is has started. I was waiting all day But bees didn't swarm But suddenly they began to swarm And the bees from the hive disappeared And went into the meadow To look for another homesite And my mother swarm went into the winter But I fear the frosts Which are sever here Might destroy the bees' family Together with my hopes. (Anderkson) on an apiary. Covered with winter's sleep The orphan garden is brooding And sad apple trees Look very thoughtful I walk to the bushes Where hives used to be in summer And where nightingales used to sing So sweetly Where in a fragrant air On a hot summer day A crazy bee swarm was buzzing Under cherry trees Alas! Neither bees nor nightingales can be heard In a deep deep sleep of winter And of my apiary There where there were hives The wind has blown snow I'm sad to see my ruined garden And with the sense of pity I made my way back. New year signs If there is hoar frost At night, then you should expect A good harvest of wheat If there are many stars in the sky Then there will be little wheat But a lot of peas If there is snow flying in the year On New Year's eve then Bees in summer will be good at swarming. |
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English translation © Irina Yelsukova