What autumn is in the yard, the windows are gilded by sunset,
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And the domes of churches, like air in amber.
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What autumn is in the yard.
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What bright sadness puts hair and hands on the shoulders.
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And we go, only the echo of the echoing streets.
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What a bright sadness.
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Through the sleeping city, silently stepping, we walked,
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Not a regiment of junkers, but a soft rubber ball.
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And only the boots were bathing in the dust,
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Replacing the will of the roads with barracks schemes.
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But for the first time the trumpeter blew the battle alarm,
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And then there was a fight, like a wedding with death.
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And I remember: only the road smacked with mud,
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And there were no more than a third of us left.
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What bright sadness puts hair and hands on the shoulders.
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And we are no more, only the echo of the resounding streets.
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What a bright sadness.
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Lord, we are destined to die,
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Button up your sweaty coats to the top of your jacket,
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I ask you - straighten your back,
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Death looks into the eyes, not under the feet.
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Lord Junker, you are seventeen, I am thirty-five,
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But I will note to you that the farther, the lower and lower.
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Who, in a moment of doubt before the cattle, will step back,
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He will die of boredom in his homeland in brooding Paris.
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What autumn is in the yard, the windows are gilded by sunset,
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And the domes of churches, like air in amber.
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What autumn is in the yard.
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What kind of woman is in the window, waiting for someone, or maybe crying.
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I don't understand what that means.
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What woman in the window... What woman in the window...
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What woman in the window... |