One wonderful day Pretty-Witty Ann...

Авторский перевод на английский стихотворения
“В один замечательно славный денёк…”
   
One wonderful day Pretty-Witty Ann
Met in the village a nice young man.
All angels smiled, but the only pity –
Her husband was never fond of her Sweetie.

She spent a night in the stranger’s dwelling.
And half of the village began tatle-telling.
Her hubby jailed her and just in case
He built a fence around the place,
And then for three years in self-defense
Concealed his Ann behind that fence.

Three years passed for the bird in a cage.
“The older, the wiser”, – said one sage.
Because he had a heart of gold,
Her hubby then let her see the world.

But that same day being full of bliss
She granted somebody a flaming kiss.
One kiss, what kind of crime is that?
But half of the village began to chat.

Insulted Hubby locked up his wife.
Three years is not a whole life.
Just three more years and after it all
She’d get forgiveness and freedom of stroll.

While walking around she took a chance
Donating a Johnny a tender glance.
But that was an impermissible act,
So half of the village began to react.

She paid her amercement – three years again –
With no use and no gain.
Even guessing, observing and being smart,
We cannot unriddle and read the heart.