trouble ['trAb(q)l] poison ['pOIz(q)n] peacock ['pi:kOk]

Come with me and I will show them to thee. For what is this trouble of thine about the things of sin? Is that which is pleasant to eat not made for the eater? Is there poison in that which is sweet to drink? Trouble not thyself, but come with me to another city. There is a little city hard by in which there is a garden of tulip-trees. And there dwell in this comely garden white peacocks and peacocks that have blue breasts.

Their tails when they spread them to the sun (их хвосты, когда они расправляют их под солнцем) are like disks of ivory (похожи на диски из слоновой кости) and like gilt disks (и золоченые диски). And she who feeds them (и та, что кормит их) dances for their pleasure (танцует для их удовольствия), and sometimes she dances on her hands (а иногда она танцует на руках) and at other times she dances with her feet (а в другой раз: «в другие разы» она танцует ножками). Her eyes are coloured with stibium (ее глаза подкрашены сурьмой; to colour — красить, окрашивать, раскрашивать), and her nostrils are shaped (и ноздри ее имеют очертания; shape — форма, очертание, to shape — придавать форму) like the wings of a swallow (крыльев ласточки). From a hook in one of her nostrils (с крючка в одной из ноздрей) hangs a flower (свисает цветок) that is carved out of a pearl (вырезанный из жемчужины). She laughs while she dances (она смеется, когда она пляшет), and the silver rings that are about her ankles (и серебряные браслеты: «кольца» на ее лодыжках) tinkle like bells of silver (звенят, как серебряные колокольчики). And so trouble not thyself any more (так что больше не тревожься; to trouble — тревожить(ся), волновать(ся), расстраивать(ся)), but come with me to this city (а пойдем со мною в этот город).'

spread [spred] ivory ['aIv(q)rI] nostril ['nOstrIl] swallow ['swOlqV]

ankle ['xNk(q)l]

Their tails when they spread them to the sun are like disks of ivory and like gilt disks. And she who feeds them dances for their pleasure, and sometimes she dances on her hands and at other times she dances with her feet. Her eyes are coloured with stibium, and her nostrils are shaped like the wings of a swallow. From a hook in one of her nostrils hangs a flower that is carved out of a pearl. She laughs while she dances, and the silver rings that are about her ankles tinkle like bells of silver. And so trouble not thyself any more, but come with me to this city.'

But the young Fisherman answered not his Soul (но молодой Рыбак не ответил своей Душе), but closed his lips with the seal of silence (а сомкнул: «закрыл» свои уста печатью молчания; seal — печать, клеймо; обет, торжественное обязательство) and with a tight cord bound his hands (и крепкой веревкой он связал свои руки;