The Easter Kiss8
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 represt.
Footnotes
8 It is the custom in Russia for all friends meeting on Easter morning (known as “Sun-bright Feast-day”) to exchange kisses three times in the name of the Trinity.