Never know these frightful dreams,
You, O my Svetlana!
Let all your life be bright
As on the bosom of a mead
A brooklet's pleasant gleam!

О! не знай сих страшных снов
Ты, моя Светлана...
Как приятный ручейка
Блеск на лоне луга,
Будь вся жизнь ее светла,
Будь веселость, как была,
Дней ее подруга.

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Svetlana (1813) epilogue (tr. Vladimir Nabokov, 1951–57, 1966–67; 2008)

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