‘I didn’t expect it, really, Dima,

      We met one day before, I see,

      That life became entirely different,

      He’ll be devoted guard for me’.

      ‘And I suggest a celebration

      In the restaurant today we’ll go.

      Then visit is to river-boat station

      We’ll see all Moscow parks and shores.

      ‘Of course, I am agreeing,

      I will be ready in a while,

      And if we come back in evening

      For me it surely will be fine’.

      On the water surface

      Reflection of the stern is twinkling,

      And in the race, the wave is splitted,

      And joy, and consolation causes

      The nature filled with better feelings.

      Now they are waiting for their orders.

      Which waiter brings right here – aboard,

      The landscapes, grand and unexplored,

      Like in a greenery, while they float.

      “Nadezhda, see, what I know now

      About you it really not too much

      While in the park we met somehow,

      Our fate exactly was as such.

      What hopes and plans you cherished

      In life before our meeting there,

      And had your heart been captured?

      What troubles were for you to care?”

      “My life went silently and worthy:

      Assiduous study, parents’ home,

      Then it became just somewhat boring,

      I found no place in it anymore

      I went to Moscow for career

      I found a job, plunged into it,

      I had no time for love arranging here,

      No time for friends, who finally quit.

      And you? What can you tell me now?

      Can you confess in love affairs, and which?

      The question is the same for you: tell, how

      Many girls you managed to bewitch?”

      “My story is so much resembling

      Yours, I duly studied, then I worked,

      And truly, at those time went dating

      Can’t tell you just what it was for.

      When I met you, it went unreal.

      How much time’s lost in emptiness,

      To look into your eyes is little,

      Is not enough for me, I guess.”

      “You aren’t alike all those

      To whom I chanced to talk before?

      By this love’s trespass, I suppose,

      I have been caught, don’t know what for.

      Your openness is a caress for my soul,

      And I confess to you the thought of mine:

      I’ll follow you even when it’s cold

      No matter where, and how and why.”

      While they discussed each other’s story,

      And gentle words of love they found,

      The dinner for them was being serving,

      From such a plenty their heads went round.

      For all these things were his arrangement,

      And this was for her surprise

      So let it be champagne and candles,

      Wine poured slowly in the glass.

      “I drink a toast to the splendid evening,

      Which is continued now, today,

      And after all, had this meeting

      I hope, just for the happiness’ sake.”

      “This moment the was really long-awaited

      And now I agree with you again

      Let happiness of our be painted

      With love, for years, not in vain!”

      Onlookers go round, near and far

      There’s so much envy in their eyes,

      As if this couple were the stars

      And each their movement was a surprise.

      But no! This is rarely to happen,

      When love in brought to us by fate,

      It’s pity for the ones, for sure:

      Who read this and… don’t understand.

      “And now along the park we’re swimming,

      The park where suddenly we’ve met

      It’s like a mystery beginning:

      One thought and it’s in front of me.”

      “Look…place on the left shore, where,

      You took me then to see the sunrise…“

      “… Now if I only dare,

      Onboard I would repeat it twice.”

      They laugh, and they cannot view

      Where they’re so calmly floating,

      And Dmitriy thinks: “To tell the truth

      I’m sorry that our date was not appointed

      Much earlier. „It’s high time they parted,

      The river boat stopped calmly in its quay,

      And everything ashore became so quiet,

      The only bell was ringing far away.

      “And now we have to part again,

      It’s hard to wait, and then to part

      The things will be much easier, when

      We live together, we can start.”

      “You are