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The Dragonfly and the Ant by Ivan Krilow

The Ballerina Dragonfly

Has sung all the beautiful summer;

She didn\'t have time to look back ever

As winter rolled into its eyes…

 

The pure field grew pale at short.

Those bright days are now no more,

When  under every leaf steady

Both table and home were ready.

 

All has  passed: with the cold winter

Poverty and hunger come in a  wink

The Dragonfly no longer sings:

And who would ever only think

To sing with a hungry stomach mutter.

 

Overwhelmed by wicked wistfulness

It crawls to the Ant with stress:

“Do not leave me, dear godfather,

Let me my strength to  gather,

 

And only until the days of spring

Feed and warm me with no think!”

\"Dear godmother, this seems strange now

Did you work in all the summer?\" -

The Ant asks her disparaging.

 

\"Was it ever to my care , my kin?

In a such soft green grass our

Songs, a frolick at every hours;

So much that it makes your head spin.\"

 

\"So you...\" — \"I heartily conce

Sang all red  summer   bring.”

—\"You\'ve been singing?

That\'s a big-thing,

So go ahead and dance!\"