| The years are young with hammered glory,
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| I myself poisoned you with a bitter poison.
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| I don't know if my end is near or far,
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| There were blue eyes, but now they have faded.
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| Where are you, joy? |
| Darkness and horror, sad and insulting.
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| In the field, right? |
| In a tavern? |
| I can not see anything.
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| I'll stretch out my hands - and now I'm listening to the touch:
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| We are going ... horses ... sleighs ... snow ... we are passing a grove.
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| “Hey, coachman, carry with might and main! |
| Tea, born not weak!
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| It’s not a pity to shake your soul over such potholes.”
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| And the coachman answered one thing: “In such a snowstorm
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| It’s very scary that the horses sweat on the way.”
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| “You, coachman, I see, you are a coward. |
| This is not from our hands!”
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| I took a whip and whipped on the horses' backs.
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| I beat, and the horses, like a blizzard, carry the snow into flakes.
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| Suddenly a push... and from the sleigh straight to the snowdrift.
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| I got up and see: what the hell - instead of a brisk troika ...
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| I am bandaged in a hospital bed.
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| And for the place of horses along the shaking road
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| I beat the hard bed with a wet bandage.
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| On the face of the clock, the hands twirled into a mustache.
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| Sleepy nurses leaned over me.
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| They leaned over and wheezed: “Oh, you, golden-headed,
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| You poisoned yourself with bitter poison.
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| We don't know if your end is near or far, -
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| Your blue eyes got wet in the taverns." |