Урок русского
'How would you say "delightful talk" in Russian?
'How would you say "good night?" '
Oh, that would be:
Bessonitza, tvoy vzor oonyl I strashen;
lubov' moya, outsoopnika prostee.
(Insomnia, your stare is dull and ashen,
my love, forgive me this apostasy.) http://www.sapov.ru/novoe/n00-39.htm
Vladimir Nabokov. An Evening of Russian Poetry
[First publication in The New Yorker. Vol. 21 (1945), N 3]
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