


Masha, come home to me.
It is rozhdestvo*
The pirozhki** and the samovar***
Like me
Are hot for you.
Masha, do not turn away
Your bright eyes and your black hair
In your blood-red headscarf.
Mat’- Rossiya**** calls you home.
And in the gingerbread-sweet izba*****
Two fires burn for you.
One in the grate
The other in my heart.
