It has set
(kupolya kupoleli)

the sweet sun — lelyumay:

alelyum kaleda! —

(quietly: here comes into
the singing — Demyadis:

the Tree of God) —

kupolya kupoleli! —

she sleeps — in her cot
my daughter — lelyumay! —

alelyum kaleda
14 July 1984
Suwalkie, Southern Lithuania

Translated from Russian by Peter France