Pied Piper Peter and Max

"Who walks there in a raincoat motley,
Drilling passers-by with a sharp gaze,
Whistling on a black pipe? ..
Lord save my child! "

Great alarm in Hamelin.
There are so many rats with passion,
Already in the houses there are countless losses
The magistrate was frightened.

And suddenly the magician - the inveterate rogue -
He appeared in a motley cloak,
On a marvelous pipe, the march played
And he drove the rats straight into the Weser.

Completed the work of the magistrate.
The wizard asked: "Where is the payment?"
And they play this way and that:
"Why pay for something? For a trifle?

Is it great work - playing the pipe?
Isn't this a joke?
Go away without further ado! "
And slammed the door of the rat-catchers.

Meanwhile, freed from rats,
The revived city rejoices,
In cathedrals - Praise the Lord! -
Bells are ringing all day!

Feast for adults, kids have fun ...
But suddenly at the northern outpost
The wizard has reappeared
I played my pipe ...

And at the same moment to these sounds
Children ran from all the houses.
And a stranger in a crowd
He took them to the Weser with him.

Nobody remembers them from now on,
Vanished forever in the abyss.
The river runs, the water flows.
At what price the bill was paid! ...

Everyone needs to remember this story,
To protect children from poison.
Human greed is poison
Who killed the Hameln guys.


(RATS FROM GAMELN
From the poetry of the vagantes
Lane Ginzburg)