line of "poetry"

Laszlo Dienes dienes at slavic.umass.edu
Mon Feb 5 23:51:39 UTC 1996


One of my students is translating a story that contains the following
four lines of "poetry":

Gratsiozna i smugla,
Vsia i schat'e i izmena,
Ulybaiasia proshla
Kadiksanskaia morena.


We have trouble with the last line. Morena could mean, in Spanish and
obsolete English, a brunette; and kadiksanskii is probably a geographical
term (Cadiz?) but we found neither in any of the Russian dictionaries.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Spasibo zaranee!

Laszlo Dienes

dienes at slavic.umass.edu



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