Joy Has Arrived...

I wonder how come there is a Joy…

JOY SUDDENLY APPEARED -

And mounted the Throne!

Settled down, and then – Joy cheered

Everyone with its performance shown:

Joy lightened thoughts with brilliant rays of hope

And changed gloomy moods to pleasant spirits -

All transformations happened just in minutes.

How come Joy acts on such a scope?

Joy had been called before, still – everything in vain:

Wide opened windows and doors, and crying might and main;

They urged Joy, well, they beseeched, with bells rung an old rhyme,

Sent heralds, bowed from the waist, and said to Joy: “IT’S TIME,

Await you, dear, - soft carpets laid, a golden table-cloth spread,

We badly need you, treasured one! Can no longer wait!

We cannot live without you, - you will be in the right:

The Home is not a home and the Bride is not a bride!”

Had smiled Joy and - stolen away,

Might be no reason had to stay,

Or someone put on it the arm -

At any rate Joy had not come.

…ALL OF A SUDDEN,

As the brilliant Sun on the Heavens JOY ROSE!

Started rolling around the earth as a rainbow wheel,

By the hills and the meadows went cheering up everybody

With sparkles of the Holy Enchantment – WAS COMING!

And opened wide all shutters and windows and

Bestowed catkins to poplars, and was

Exploded with riot of colors - up to the Heaven, -

At once there flowed such a lot of the Light and the Kindliness

That the Soul became breathless with happiness.

O, JOY! HOW IT IS AWFULLY NICE YOU HAVE ARRIVED!

(Переводчик В.В. Чистяков)

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