Rain draped the sky in a twinkling shroud. May's rain. Dozhd', zvonkoj pelenoj napolnil nebo majskij dozhd'. Thunder hammered along the rooftops, scared all the cats away. Thunder. Grom, progremel po krysham, raspugal vseh koshek grom. I opened the window, and a merry wind scattered everything on my desk - Ya otkryl okno, i veselyj veter razmetal vse na stole - Silly poems that I wrote in a clammy and miserable emptiness. Glupye stihi, chto pisal ya v dushnoj i unyloj pustote.
May's thunder roared, and joy, in a sweeping, drunkening wave, Gryanul majskij grom i vesel'e burnoyu, p'yanyascheyu volnoj Rolled over: "Hey, get up, and jump in after me! Okatilo. Ej, vstavaj-ka i poprygaj vsled za mnoj. Get out into the yard and hop around the puddles till morning, if you want, - Vyhodi vo dvor i po luzham begaj hot' do samogo utra. Look at how the funny, blessed children are running about. Posmotri kak nositsya smeshnaya i svyataya detvora.
Droplets on my face - it's only the rain, or maybe it's me crying; Kapli na litse - eto prosto dozhd', a mozhet plachu eto ya. The rain cleansed everything, and my soul, sobbing, suddenly felt soaked through, - Dozhd' ochistil vse i dusha zahlyupav, i vdrug razmokla u menya. It rolled down in a creek, away from home and towards the sunny, unsown plains, Potekla ruch'em proch' iz doma k solnechnym nekoshenym lugam. Turning into vapor, it flew with the wind towards unknown, undiscovered worlds. Prevrativshis' v par, s vetrom poletela k neizvedannym, nevedomym miram.
And then I imagined: the city suddenly filled with merry people. I predstavil ya: gorod navodnilsya vdrug veselymi lyud'mi. Everyone came out into the rain and sang, and laughed… dammit!... Vyshli vse po dozhd', skoro chto-to peli, i plyasali, chert voz'mi. Having forgotten about all shame, and the possibility to fall sick with complications, Pozabyv pro styd i opasnost' posle s oslozhnen'em zabolet', The people in the rain greeted thunder like fireworks; the very first spring thunder. Lyudi pod dozhdem, kak salyut, vstrechali grom - vesennij pervyj grom.