'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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