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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

The Easter Kiss

By Apollon Maykov (1821–1897)

Translation of John Pollen

SOON the sun-bright feast-day cometh,—

I will claim my Easter kiss;

Others then will stand around us:

Pray, my Dora, mark you this!

Just as if I never kissed you,

Blushing red before the rest,

You must kiss with downcast eyelids,

I will kiss with smile repressed.