Yat-Kha

Tyva Kyztar

How beautiful modern Tuvan girls are, look at them...
They are like silver-birch trees in the glade
Flowing plaits stream like rivers or waving millet in the fields
Ah, to touch and hold their lovely thin fingers.
Black-black eyebrows like a swallow's wing
Their sparkling eyes like stars in the sky
Shapely legs like arrows straining
And flowing motions like a fish in water...
Their wit and knowledge are acclaimed by everyone,
The girls are smart, forewomen "on both hands".
I praise the land, the life that will be rich.
Pray God give them all the best in the world.