cat at lukamore

Ruslan and Lyudmila by Alexander Pushkin (translated by Roger Clarke) PROLOGUE By an arc of sea a green oak stands to the oak a chain of gold is tied and at the chains end night and day a learned cat walks round and round. Rightwards he goes, and sings a song leftwards, a fairy tale he tells. Theres magic! Its a wood sprites haunt- a rusalka sits among the boughs- on footpaths no one has explored are tracks of beasts no one has seen- a hut stands there on chickens legs, no windows in its walls, ...