| Above the snow-covered garden a lonely lantern,
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| And like a fresh bruise, the moon burns my heart.
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| At this aching midnight, the path is not ordered for me
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| At the Vagankovo cemetery, where he lay down to rest.
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| I will go, hearing the cry of other, inquisitorial countries,
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| Past the splayed bodies, past the racks and cassocks.
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| For a long time the saw of those scaffolds will ring ...
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| I will go, numb, from the greatness of evil.
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| I distinguish dueling pistols in the darkness,
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| Two poets shot and not on papal soil.
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| Officers of the young age are known as murderers.
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| Ah, Volodya, Volodenka, who are we to blame?
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| And in a glance scattered near the tight noose
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| Yesenin suddenly flashes a ruddy pain.
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| Mouths open obscenely, I see drunk gentlemen
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| Over the vomited tablecloth of Velemir's odes.
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| I see the Tarusa huts, Komarov snow,
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| Two great, Russian, two friends to the gods.
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| The house on Andreevsky Spusk, where is the board, who lived in it?
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| But we still hope, meeting knives in the chest.
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| Visions float by and I want to scream:
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| “We were not born villains, so how long are we to lie?”
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| I am standing in front of the "Banka", I have finished my journey,
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| I came to Vagankovo, where he lay down to rest. |