Bird Catcher after Eduard Bagritsky

It is hard for the  bird catcher
Learn about habits of birds,
Keep in mind migration due date,
Various whistle imitate.

But staggering along the roads,
Sleeping under stranger fences,
Didel’s cheerful, Didel’s able
Sing gay songs, catch any birds.

In elderberry, raw and round,
Nightingales struck with a pipe loud,      
On the pine tree titmouses gingle,
On the birch, the chaffinch beats.

Defty Didel then pulls out
From his own reserved knapsack
Three decoys - for each bird special
He gives out it’s decoy.

Blows into elderflower decoy,
And the elderberry calls back him.
From the elderberry cover
The nightingale promptly answers.

He blows into  a pine decoy,
And the pine decoy is back whistling -
On the pine titmouses’r responding
And skuttering like the bells.

And pulls out our  Didel
From his own reserved knapsack
His own lightest, most sonorous
His favorite  birch decoy.

He will gently check the all frets,
Will  blow through the sweetly  channel, -
Birch with  very loud voice then
Will sing, accompanying.

Hearing distinctly this voice, the
Voice of a tree and of a bird shout,
On alone roadside birch clearly i
Chaffinch thunders in response.

Near the country road spacious,
Where the carts has been calmed down,
Near a pond covered with duckweed,
Didel laid out all his nets.

And before him, green below,
Blue and dark blue on top above
The world rises like an immense bird huge:
Which is whistling, clicking, rings.

So goes the very cheerful Didel
With a stick, a bird and a knapsack
Through the Harz, overgrown with forests,
Near the banks of the  stately Rhine.

By Thuringia with oak trees,
By Saxongia with pine trees,
By Westphalia with elderberry,
By Bavaria with beers.

Martha, Martha,  no need crying,
If Didel walks in the field vastness,
If your Didel whistles the birds there,
And gives smiles off and on.