| И вынесли семь вёдер крови,
| And they carried out seven buckets of blood,
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| И поставили пред их очи,
| And put before their eyes,
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| И были вёдра полны с краями вровень,
| And the buckets were full with the edges flush,
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| И кровь та была цвета ночи.
| And that blood was the color of the night.
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| И разлили тёмное в чаши,
| And they poured the dark into bowls,
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| И стали пить они жадно,
| And they began to drink greedily,
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| И сказали им: «Это кровь детей ваших,
| And they said to them: “This is the blood of your children,
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| Чьи тела лежат хладно.»
| Whose bodies lie cold."
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| И не услышали они слово,
| And they did not hear the word,
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| И наполнили много свои брюхо,
| And they filled their bellies a lot,
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| И каждый пил больше другого,
| And each drank more than the other,
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| И стало в вёдрах на доньях сухо.
| And it became dry in the buckets on the bottoms.
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| И потребовали они ещё для себя,
| And they demanded more for themselves,
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| И кричали всей глубиной горел,
| And they screamed with all their depths,
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| И никто не стоял скорбя,
| And no one stood mourning
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| И никто не дышал горем.
| And no one breathed grief.
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| И кинули им под ноги костей груду,
| And they threw a pile of bones under their feet,
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| И стали жевать они хрящами,
| And they began to chew on cartilage,
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| И повылезало их еще отовсюду,
| And they crawled out from everywhere,
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| И мерить стали их городов площадями.
| And they began to measure their cities by squares.
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| И обглодали добела они кости,
| And they gnawed the bones white,
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| И взяли белые в немощь рук своих,
| And the white ones took their hands in weakness,
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| И били друг друга, что есть злости,
| And they beat each other, that there is anger,
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| И обращали в мёртвых живых.
| And they turned the living into the dead.
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| И стучал горох голов человечьих,
| And the peas of human heads pounded,
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| И крови кипящей шумел поток,
| And a stream of boiling blood roared,
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| И каждый каждого изувечил,
| And everyone mutilated everyone,
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| И горе на каждый пришло порог.
| And grief for everyone has come to the threshold.
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| И тьма распустилась безликим цветком,
| And the darkness blossomed into a faceless flower,
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| И не было ни солнца ни луны ни звёзд,
| And there was no sun, no moon, no stars,
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| И многие уходили тайком,
| And many went secretly,
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| И многие искали на небеса мост.
| And many were looking for a bridge to heaven.
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| И стало душно в заоблачных городах,
| And it became stuffy in the sky-high cities,
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| И опустела земля людьми,
| And the earth was desolate with people,
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| И всё стало прах,
| And everything became dust
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| И то, что не стало прахом, жгли.
| And what did not become dust was burned.
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| И стал мир пуст,
| And the world became empty
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| И было так семь дней и одну ночь,
| And it was like this for seven days and one night,
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| И все слова облетели с уст,
| And all the words flew from the mouth,
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| И всё живое унесло прочь.
| And all living things were taken away.
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| И был день восьмой,
| And it was the eighth day,
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| И небо открыло свои глаза,
| And the sky opened its eyes
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| И за первой солнца слезой
| And behind the first sun tear
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| Была вторая луны слеза.
| There was a second moon tear.
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| И те, кто выжил, обратили лица,
| And those who survived turned their faces
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| И смыл с них дождь грязь и пепел,
| And the rain washed away dirt and ashes from them,
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| И Он в воды те окунул десницу,
| And He dipped his right hand into those waters,
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| И никто из них Его не узнал, никто не заметил. | And none of them recognized Him, no one noticed. |