The fence is quite dry, and the sprouting peony
With its little red beak through the flowerbed pecks.
In the farmyard the mottle-skinned cowherd keeps tramping,
Cofee-brown and light-grey, with their sturdy, thick necks.
In her wide homespun jerkin the cowgirl keeps running
After stray cows behind the great haystacks, and falls.
With their trousers rolled up to their knees – ah, how funny! –
In a puddle a whole heap of peasant boys rolls.
A serious cat waddles out of a barn,
And Towzerkin sits at the doorstep and stretches.
The smell of the south wind, as heady as balm,
My nose through the wide-open windowpane reaches.
I feel Spring’s arrival with body and soul.
How lovely it is just to breathe – I can’t tell!
The sprouts of peonies peck through on the beds.
Soon, soon will the first forest flowers bloom as well!
I listen, quite still. In an ocean of light
The skylark its melody merrily tries.
The pond hums aloud by the mill, out of sight.
The cowgirl falls down by the haystack and cries.
I, too, feel like laughing and crying and shouting
In a vortex of radiant, resonant air –
If only to look at the wry old man putting
In order the tumbledown fence over there.
(Kazys Binkis)
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