1 <br /> <br />Let us go where there are varied crafts <br />And trades -- shashlik and chebureki, <br />Where trousers on a sign give us <br />The idea of a man. <br />A man's frock coat: headless aspiration, <br />The barber's flying fiddle, a mesmerizing iron, <br />The appearance of heavenly washer-women -- <br />The smile of heaviness. <br /> <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />Here, the girls, their bangs aging, <br />Contemplate the strange attire, <br />Admirals in stiff three-cornered hats <br />Bring Scheherezade's dream to mind. <br />The distance is transparent. A few grapes. <br />A fresh wind ever blowing. <br />Not far from Smyrna and Baghdad, <br />But difficult to sail, <br />And the stars are everywhere the same.<br /><br />Osip Emilevich Mandelstam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/let-us-go-where-there-are-varied-crafts/
