# Fatalist

Эмиль Шарафутдинов

из Лермонтова

And boring and sad, and none to be given a hand

When a minute of suffering comes

Desires!.. what's the use of desiring vainly without a stand?..

While the years slip by - the best ones!


To love... whom again?... for a while - it is worth no pains,

But to love for eternity no one could.

Shall you look in yourself? - of the past no vestige remains:

There all has been nothing, every joy, every wound...


What passions? - After all sooner or later their pleasant disease

Shall vanish, if you reason it out at rest;

And life, look it over with icy attention - it is

Such an empty and foolish jest...