Гарик Сукачев, Знаю я есть края \ Igor Sukachev, Climes (subs by V. Chetin)
Know for sure, there are climes,
May you go look around, try to find them.
There’s such soil out there,
there’s such grass out there,
woods in those lands are like
in no memory, chum, anywhere.
In them climes, in lagoons,
water’s pure holy dew,
Stars like diamonds are glimmering
and falling down in the mountains.
I would leave for them climes,
if I could book a ticket due there.
And the ticket is worth
just a song and a couple of coppers,
but it cannot be found,
but it cannot be booked,
may you ask booking offices for it
as hard as you can.
Heard a passenger say
he was going that way but, unfortunately,
railway switch had been broken,
And another related а story
about a chance cab.
I’ve long studied a great
deal of both short and medium
and distant trip time-tables,
Only they are all wrong,
both couchette and roomette;
And there are always traveling tickets
in various ports;
Yet in all of them