Dancing Eurydices [Russian translation]

Music plays every night

In a pub on the corner

Stay there, keep out of sight

Eurydices would dance

Until old Moon and stars

Will reign over the world

You will stay in the arms

Of the drunken Orpheus

Out from brilliant Moon and stars

Dark night put a haze of blue

In their dance the Eurydices

Listen to the gentle tune

River murmurs, softly flowing

Dances surprised the lantern's shadow

In the open pub's door

Stretches his back a big black cat

How strange are your lips, oh dear

Eurydice, Eurydice

How deep seemed your eyes, how queer

Eurydice, Eurydice

Time just runs, and in a moment

Golden dawn will break the spell

Mists will fade away in the air

Last shadows of night will go

Wind awoke and bemused

Plays with twigs as with strings

Maybe trees, maybe music

Maybe Orpheus sings

As a ghost steals the back cat

To his place in the drugstore

He'll just melt into smell

Until first cock will crow

River murmurs, softly flowing

Shape of lantern lost its blackness

In the pub the crowd is growing

People strolling in the streets

Strong wind blows and strong wind dances

In the streets quite wild and crazy

Throwing on the twigs, just passing

The transparent cobweb of mist

How strange are your lips, oh dear

Eurydice, Eurydice

How deep seemed your eyes, how queer

Eurydice, Eurydice

As in deep intoxication

Bad wind dances in the streets

No more signs of adjuration

There remained just…

There remained just the black cat

• Artist:Anna German