Is the original poem If Life Deceives You in English or Russian?
Russian Pushkin's masterpiece, of course. Can he write poems in English? You know, at that time, Russia and even Europe were learning French, because French was aristocratic and noble. Of course, Pushkin didn't write French poems either. He only writes poems in his native Russian. If you know Russian, you will know that the English version is not that good. The translation of any poem is a revision of the original, and its charm will disappear.