Champagne Polonez

Champagne in a lily! Champagne in a lily!
With health and with wisdom it sparkles and shines!
A shot of Mignon with one of Escamillio
Champagne in a lily - a sacred wine.

Champagne in a lily bursting and sparkling
The wine contained in a flower's cup.
I glory in rapture the Christ and the Antichrist
With soul deified in delight of a gulp!

A hawk and a mourning dove! Reichstag and Bastille -
The sleep and the wakefulness! Demon and Lord!
Lily in champagne and champagne in a lily -
The lighthouse of oneness in sea of discord!

By Igor Severyanin
Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat