| They knock down tables in the yard from the boards,
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| Until they cover it, they knock on dominoes.
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| The days in May are longer than the nights in December,
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| But time drags on - and everything is decided.
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| Already the pre-war lamps are burning at full tilt -
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| And from the windows Moscow stared down at the prisoners...
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| And somewhere a soldier was still pushed in the heart with a fragment,
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| And somewhere the scouts need to get a language.
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| Now the banners are being updated. |
| And they build in columns.
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| And the cobblestones in the square are as clean as parquet on the floor.
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| And yet the echelons go and go to the West.
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| And women in the rear come over the funeral.
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| Not drunk to the relish of spring water,
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| Not bought for the future wedding rings -
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| Everything was washed away by the stream of people's misfortune,
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| Which comes to an end at last.
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| Crosses made of strips of paper were torn off the glass.
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| Here are the curtains - down! |
| The blackout is useless.
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| And somewhere alcohol is distributed before the fight from a flask,
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| He drives everything out - both cold, and fear, and plague.
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| Icons are already being cleaned from the soot of candles.
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| Both the soul and the mouth do both prayer and poetry.
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| But with a red cross, everyone goes and goes echelons,
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| Although the losses according to the reports are not so great.
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| Gardens are already blooming everywhere.
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| And the earth warmed up, and the water in the ditches.
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| And soon the reward for military labors -
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| Pillow of fresh grass in the heads.
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| Aerostats no longer loom over the city.
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| The sirens fell silent, preparing to sound victory.
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| And the company commanders will still have time to go to the battalion commanders,
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| Who can still easily be killed.
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| The trophy accordions have already sounded,
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| So the oaths are heard to live in harmony, love,
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| without debt
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| And yet trains go and go to the West,
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| And it seemed to us that there were no enemies left at all. |