Lullaby

Svet iz lesa progonyaya proch'      
Na derevya nadvigalas' noch'      
Zasypali pticy i kusty            
Zasypali zveri i tsvety           
I kogda posledniy shum umolk      
Na opushku lesa vyshel volk       
Sel pod bledno-zheltoyu lunoi     
I razdalsya grustnyi-grustnyi voi..

  Chasing the light out of the forest,
  The night moved onto the trees.
  The birds and the bushes fell asleep,
  As did the animals and flowers.
  And as the last noise died
  A wolf came out onto the forest clearing,
  Sat under the pale yellow moon
  And a sad, sad howl began..

Vrodye vse v poryadke bylo dnyom  
Zhizn' u volka shla svoim putyom
No luna zhestokaya vzoshla
I opyat' s uma yego svela
Vzdargivali ptitsy i kusty
Vzdragivali zveri i tsvety
Slysha kak v glubokoi tishinye
Volk tosklivo pesnyu pel lunye

  Everything seemed to have been all right in the daytime,
  The wolf's life had been going its normal way;
  But the cruel moon rose,
  And drove him insane once more.
  The birds and the bushes shivered
  As did the animals and flowers,
  Hearing how in the deep stillness
  The wolf sang his lonely song to the moon.