[Дм. Винoxoдов]

Goblin Feet

I am off down the road
Where the fairy lanterns glowed
And the little pretty flittermice are flying:
A slender hand ofgrey
It runs creepely away
And the hedges and the grasses are a-sighing.
The air is full of wings
And of blundering beetle-things
That warn you with their whirring and their humming.
O! I hear the tiny horns
Of enchanted leprechauns
And the padding feet of many gnomes a-coming.

O! the lights; O! the gleams; O! the little tinkly sounds;
O! the rustle of their noiseless little robes;
O! the echo of their feet -- of their little happy feet;
O! their swinging lamps in little starlit globes.

I must follow in their train
Down the crooked fairy lane
Where the coney-rabbits long ago have gone,
And where silvery they sing
In a moving moonlit ring
All a-twinkle with the jewels they have on.
They are fading round the turn
Where the glow-worms palely burn.

And the echo of their padding feet is dying!
O! it's knocking atmy heart --
Let me go! O! let me start!
For the little magic hours are all a-flying.

O! the warmth! O! the hum! O! the colours in the dark!
O! the gauzy wings of golden honey-flies!
O! the music of their feet -- of their dancing golbin feet!
O! the magic! O! the sorrow when it dies.