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VIOLET ON THE MOUNTAIN<br />
Nestan-Darejan<br />
Nestan-Darejan, where did you sleep?<br />
— The end of the meadow.<br />
What was your blanket?<br />
— Golden brocade.<br />
I came and uncovered you, kissed you three times;<br />
These three kisses, they made your face blush.<br />
With blushing face, she wrote a letter.<br />
What was enclosed?<br />
— Bright silks and satin.<br />
Where did she send it?<br />
— To David the King.<br />
How did she send it?<br />
— By mule and camel.<br />
What was sent back?<br />
— Velvet brocade.<br />
Who unloaded it?<br />
— One hundred men.<br />
How did she cut the velvet brocade?<br />
— The point of a scissors.<br />
How did she sew it?<br />
— The point of a needle in cut-crystal fingers.<br />
How did she don it?<br />
— With delicate hands, and full of rejoicing.<br />
How did she doff it?<br />
— Bitterly weeping.<br />
How did she wash it?<br />
— In her hot tears.<br />
On what did she hang it?<br />
— An aloe-tree branch.<br />
Avtandil went hunting<br />
Avtandil went hunting<br />
On a high ridge, in thick forests,<br />
Caught nothing — not buck nor doe,<br />
Nor hart with full-grown horns.<br />
At last his hawk-feathered arrow<br />
Brought down a swift roe-deer;<br />
He hung it down from his saddle,<br />
The whole deer, not yet skinned.<br />
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