FROM LAL.
John Pollen translation
ADVICE.
They say a Greek philosopher Thought long, both night and day, How for the cure of human woes To find the surest way. “The bad,” he found, “without a doubt, Dwelt but in woman’s ways.” So he advised, most earnestly, “Don’t on a woman gaze.” Now, I before you put the case— Did he find right or wrong? If he found right, then his advice Was hardly worth a song. To those who wish with certainty From marriage bonds to fly, I give this counsel, “Constantly On women keep an eye.”
THE TITULYÁRNYI SOVÉTNIK.[14]
He——was a Ninth-class Councillor, And she——a General’s daughter. He timidly declared his love; She spurned him when he sought her. Then went that Ninth-class Councillor, And drowned his grief in drinking; And through the vinous fumes all night That General’s girl came blinking—blinking.