Voice of the North-Anabioz

Our ship moved to the North There the ice sparkles at sun There severe frost is even in summer. Twinkling stars looked at us From the sky And furious wind inflated our sails. We wished to reach To the very world’s end We wished to subdue This land of ice. But with the roar of cold wind The voice has reached us, And waves foamed, And ice-floes started to dance. “Long time I saw nobody Under this cold sun! What do you need here? This is my land. I can break your masts And sink your ship I can crush you With big ice-floe. I rules by all winds, By waves, by severe frost Return back, before your ship Will break by storm. Here is nothing for you, Here is nobody It’s only my kingdom And my lands are deserted! Or you’ll stay with me at my ice palaces? And North wind will sing for you. Till it will be too late to return back Before you’ll die in my cold embrace!” We listened to a cold voice, And our blood frozen in veins. We saw the fearsome face Shrouded by snowy veil. And clouds curled behind it, And the sky had darkened. And our hearts gave a shudder In the face of this violent force. And we have turned back, we couldn’t more further There is black water under blocks of blue ice. Severe frost is there, at world’s end. And She lives there, in palace of ice.