Swan-Princess

While the helpless bird was splashing,

With her wings the waters lashing.

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Then she flapped her pinions two,

Loudly thrashed the waters blue,

Drenching him from head to toe

Ere he could say yes or no.

The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son, the Glorious and Mighty Knight Prince Guidon Saltanovich, and of the Fair Swan-Princess

by Alexander Pushkin

Translated by Louis Zellikoff

2016, May