Just as if I never kissed you,
Blushing red before the rest,
You must kiss, with downcast eyelids;
I will kiss, with smile represt.
FOOTNOTES:
[8] It is the custom in Russia for all friends meeting on Easter morning (known as “Sun-bright Feast-day”) to exchange kisses three times in the name of the Trinity.
ON LOMONOSSOEF.[9]
God chose him from his earliest years;
Revealed, ’mid glittering icebergs stood,
In northern light, in gleam of stars,