Алан Милн. Домовой

За шторой в комнате пустой,
Почти у самой двери,
Живет, наверно, домовой -
В него мы с няней верим.
Вчера прокрались с ней туда,
Чтоб заглянуть за шторку.
Но ускользнул он, вот беда,
Наш домовенок зоркий!


In a corner of the bedroom is a great big curtain,
Someone lives behind it, but I don't know who;
I think it is a Brownie, but I'm not quite certain.
(Nanny isn't certain, too.)
I looked behind the curtain, but he went so quickly -
Brownies never wait to say, "How do you do?"
They wriggle off at once because they're all so tickly
(Nanny says they're tickly too.)


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