| Like everyone else, we are cheerful and gloomy,
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| But if you have to choose and the choice is difficult -
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| We choose wooden suits, -
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| People!  | 
| People!
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| We will be offered for a long time not to miscalculate:
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| “Ah,” they will say, “what are you!  | 
| You haven't lived yet!
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| All you need to do is just get started!"
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| Well, and then they will offer: either - or.
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| Or beaches, vernissages, or even
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| Steamships, their holds filled,
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| Crews, races, parties, voyages -
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| Or just wooden suits.
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| And they will be cheerful or gloomy,
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| And they will be in the role of evil jesters and good judges, -
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| But we will be offered wooden suits, -
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| People!  | 
| People!
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| We may even be offered to smoke:
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| “Ah,” they will remember, “you haven’t smoked for a long time!
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| Yes, you have not yet begun to live! .. "-
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| Well, and then they will offer: either - or.
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| The smoke of a cigarette evokes something, -
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| One puff is more fun than a thought.
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| Smoke hunting!  | 
| How to smoke hunting!
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| But you need to choose wooden suits.
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| And they will be so polite and affectionate -
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| They will offer a happy life on a platter, -
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| But we will refuse - and they beat cruelly, -
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| People!  | 
| People!  | 
| People! |