A Tomcat And A Cook

Some Cook from his kitchen went into the tavern, meanwhile he left a tomcat at home to guard a food against mice. But what did he see upon return? There were scraps of cake on the floor; and Tom in the corner behind a barrel of vinegar,
purring and humming, was tasting a chicken.
"Oh, you glutton! Ah, villain!" -
then Cook rebuked Thomas -
"Well, are not you ashamed?
(while Tom still was eating the chicken.)
What! Until now you have been an honest tomcat,
you was considered a model of humility -
But you ... Ah! What a shame! Now all the neighbors will say:
"Tom is a thief! Tom is a rogue! Would it be possible so to say to let Tom go not just into the kitchen, but even into the yard: he is a plague of this place!"
(While Tom was listening but eating.)
There my rhetorician, giving free rein to the flow of words, could not find the end of moralizing. What next?  While he was exercising in oratory, the tomcat had eaten a dish of steak into the bargain.
My dear fellow, mark my words:
"Eloquence is useless there,
Where one need to use the power".

My Dear Uncle

My dear uncle is a regular gentleman,
When having gravely fallen ill,
He has forced to respect himself
And could imagine nothing better.
For others he’s a model case;
However, good heaven,
What a boredom for one to sit
With a patient all day and night
Without moving even a step away!
What a mean craftiness
To amuse the alive corpse,
To shake cushions up for him,
To fetch and carry sadly him medicines,
To sigh thinking to oneself:
When on earth hell will accept you!

The Spark Will Kindle A Flame

The ardor sounds of prophetic strings
have reached our ears,
our hands was about to take arms,
but found only shackles.
Still, bard, do not worry!
We are so proud of our fate,
of our iron chains, that
even behind the prison gates
we laugh at the kings
in the depth of our hearts.
Our sad work won’t be lost in vain,
the spark will kindle a flame,
already enlightened common people
will rally under the holy banner.
We will forge the swords out of our chains,
we will light the flame of freedom again.
It will catch the kings by surprise,
while the peoples will sigh of happy relief.