| “Khas-Bulat is daring! |
| Your poor saklya;
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| I will shower you with a golden treasury.
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| I will decorate your saklya magnificently all around,
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| I will upholster the walls in it with a Persian carpet.
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| Galun your beshmet I will spread around the edges
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| And I will give you my treasured pistol.
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| I'll give you a checker with a mark older than you,
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| I will give you a dashing horse with a Kabardian brand.
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| I'll give my rifle, I'll give Bazalai's dagger,
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| Only for this you give me your wife.
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| You're already old, you're already gray, she can't live with you,
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| At the dawn of a young age, you will destroy her.
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| It's hard to answer her without love
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| And not loving your wrinkles, kiss.
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| You see, there Yamman-Su washes the steep bank,
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| There yesterday I was in the forest with your wife.
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| Under the thick plane tree we sat together,
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| The moon floated golden, everything was silent around.
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| And the river played with a rolling wave,
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| And a hand slid over the young chest.
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| She gave herself to me until the last day
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| And she swore by Allah that she did not love you! |
| "
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| Khas-Bulat gripped the checkers tightly
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| And, seizing the dagger, he began to answer him:
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| "Prince! |
| Your story is long, you told me in vain,
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| My young wife and I lay in wait for you yesterday.
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| Take care, prince, of the treasury and own it yourself.
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| For unfaithfulness I will give you a wife as a gift.
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| Admire your bride, go -
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| She sleeps in my shrine with a dagger in her chest.
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| I closed her eyes, drowning in tears,
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| My kiss froze on her lips."
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| The voice of the old man is silent, the steep bank is dozing,
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| And the river plays with a rolling wave.
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| Here is an angry prince
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| He suddenly drew his saber;
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| head of an old man
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| Rolled into the meadow.
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| For a long time he stood silent
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| The prince is at the corpse with a pillar;
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| I reproached myself
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| But I decided on my own.
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| The dew soon fell
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| A fresh wind blew
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| The voices of the birds were silenced,
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| Only the river roared.
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| With a mad roar suddenly,
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| Hitting the rock
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| The murderous prince jumped
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| And he went to the bottom. |