Servus -- Reginae

Don't call. Without any summons

I'll reach the shrine.

And droop my head in even silence

To your feet fine.

I will your orders shyly listen

And will remain

To catch our meetings, short and instant,

And wish again.

I fell before your passions' power,

Before its wave,

Sometimes — a serf; sometimes — a lover;

Always — a slave.

Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, December, 1994

Edited by Dmitry Karshtedt, February, 2001