| Herbs again in the morning
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| The wretched wind is blowing.
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| Not a fire in the pre-dawn steppe.
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| Didn't kill yesterday
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| They won't kill even today
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| Only tomorrow they will shoot me.
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| I know that tomorrow I will sing the last song
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| At the bend of a fast river,
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| And then I'll put on a linen shirt,
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| And bayonets will stick to my back.
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| I do not order hands to knit
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| Yes, wrap a scarf
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| on the eyes
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| I don't like waiting for pain
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| In the dark:
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| No tear is visible in it.
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| I will open my chest and give it to the sun,
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| And I will substitute a smile for the rays.
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| I don't like waiting for pain
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| In the dark:
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| No tear is visible in it.
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| Again with a search warrant, they knocked on my soul,
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| Witnesses impudently froze at the door.
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| Again he clenched his teeth, like a beast to a chill, to a growl,
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| Again they will rummage through the heart, as in wearable things.
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| Again the woman will stick into the apron, the chintz will defile with ink,
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| And my girl will hide in a corner in anguish.
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| And they will go, guys, on my chest with their feet,
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| Leaving dirt on the ribs, as if on a rug.
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| I will squeeze my fists tighter:
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| There is a warrant - I honor the laws,
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| Understand that older
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| I will offer a stool.
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| Everything will be easier for him.
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| With an eye to see how beats bows
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| For me my mother
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| at thirty-five incomplete years.
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| Aren't you tired
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| are you from corpses, herostrati?
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| Are you not dreaming
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| dead at night?
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| Falling to the ground again
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| words faithful soldiers,
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| Can't you hear
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| how do their children scream? |