Quatrains
A typical example of a Guberman quatrain:
Надежды нет, и мир суров.
Что делать бедному еврею?
Я продаю свое перо,
И жаль что пуха не имею.
Literal translation:
Hope is scarce, and the world is harsh.
What is a poor Jew to do?
And so I now sell my quill,
Regretting that I have no down*.
'*A play on the double meaning of word перо: pen and feather; hence: пух, meaning down.
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