Чого являєшся мені у сні [Choho yavlyayeshsya meni u sni] [English translation]

Why do you appear to me

In dreams?

Why do you turn to me

Those beautiful eyes so bright,

So sad,

Like the bottom of a cold well?

Why is your mouth so mute?

What reproach, what suffering

What unspoken desire's

On them, a vivid rouge,

Occupying itself delicately

In the gloom?

Why do you appear to me

In dreams?

In life you made me proud,

You have exhausted my heart,

You have called out from it one

Of those loud wailings -

Songs.

In life you probably don't know me,

As you walk down the street - you pass me by,

I bow down - you don't notice

Not even nodding your head,

Though you know, know, know well,

How I love you without understanding,

How I suffer the long nights

And like the years upon years

my pain, my sorrow, the songs

In my heart choke me daily.

Oh no!

Appear, my little star, to me!

At least in a dream!

To be pinning my whole life --

And not to be living.

Oh let that heart be that is grieved,

Like that pearl in the mud,

It dwindles, wilts, dries up,--

At least in dreams, your image comes to life,

At least in misery it quickly plays out

In real life it slowly recovers it's breath,

And that golden wonder

It will know, the fortune of youth,

That desired, frightful

Sin!

• Artist:Ivan Franko