If life disappoints your hopes,
Be niether sad, nor mad,
In days of dejection prove obedience:
Believe a better day is not in the distance.
The future comforts one`s heart,
The present is cheerless:
All is instantly, everything is to be gone,
And only when it`s gone it will become sweet!
Translated from Russian. The poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 'Yesli Jizn Tebya Obmanet'
Emma Adamyan
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