| I spent the whole day wandering in the forest.
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| I look - the evening is on the nose,
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| There is no more sun in the sky
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| Only a red mark remained.
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| The firs fell silent. |
| Oak fell asleep.
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| In the darkness, the hazel tree sank.
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| Sleepy pine fell silent.
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| And there was silence:
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| And the crossbill is silent, and the thrush is silent,
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| And the woodpecker no longer knocks.
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| Suddenly I hear an owl hooting,
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| So much so that the foliage shuddered:
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| — Whoo! |
| Time is wasted,
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| Dawn faded in the sky.
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| Let's drag the screamer
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| Until the moon came out.-
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| The other grumbled in response:
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| “I didn’t finish my lunch.”
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| And again the first: - Wow!
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| You are always talking nonsense!
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| We won't make it:
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| After all, they can lock the doors.
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| Drop lunch, let's fly now
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| Let's take it, and the story is over. -
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| I parted the branches with my shoulder
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| And he shouted: - Owls, what are you talking about? |
| —
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| After cleaning the beak, one of them
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| I answered for two:
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| There is a strange boy in the world.
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| He himself knows how to eat porridge,
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| Battleship can draw
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| And train evil dogs.
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| But they will only say: "It's time to sleep,"
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| He roar starts until the morning:
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| "Don't extinguish
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| fire,
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| don't ask
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| Me,
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| Doesn't matter
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| I won't sleep
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| Whole bed
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| I'll turn over
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| I don't wish
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| I can not,
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| Better for owls
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| I will run away…”
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| We reasoned: so and so,
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| Since this little weirdo
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| Doesn't want to sleep at night
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| He needs to become an owl.
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| We'll bring the boy into the hollow,
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| Let's say five terrible words,
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| Let's give magic grass
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| And turn him into an owl.
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| Here the owls rose from their place
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| And they were carried away into the darkness of the night.
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| I knew where they were going
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| Who do they want to bewitch?
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| After all, this is Zhenya, my neighbor,
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| He is five and a half years old
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| And he's all night long
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| Screams, rages and roars:
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| "Don't extinguish
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| fire,
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| don't ask
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| Me,
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| Doesn't matter
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| I won't sleep
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| Whole bed
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| I'll turn over
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| I don't wish
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| I can not,
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| Better for owls
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| I will run away…”
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| How to get ahead of these owls?
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| How can I warn Zhenya?
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| No one can help me
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| It's completely dark, it's night.
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| The mist has risen,
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| A star lit up in the sky...
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| I rushed to wake the woodpecker:
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| “Listen, woodpecker, what should I do?
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| My best friend is in trouble
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| And I can't find a way...
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| The woodpecker thought, was silent
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| And shook his head:
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| - I won't put my mind to it
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| I'm going to wake up the mouse.-
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| Now a mouse has come running
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| And she squeaked: - Why are you sad?
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| After all, my friend is an old mole
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| Dug a straight underground passage.
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| You can go straight
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| And you will not go astray.-
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| And despite the darkness
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| I ran to the mole.
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| But here again trouble awaited:
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| The move was wide with a mole!
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| Well, how do I go on the road,
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| When can't I fit in it?
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| You'll have to climb on top.
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| But how to find a path in the darkness?
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| Glasses won't help me...
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| But the woodpecker called out: “Fireflies!” |
| —
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| And the fireflies came
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| Such good bugs
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| And immediately the darkness receded,
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| And I ran like an arrow
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| Like a runner
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| Like a helicopter
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| Like a jet!
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| Here I am at home. |
| Owls before!
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| Ordinary Zhenkin hear the roar:
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| "Don't extinguish
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| fire,
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| don't ask
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| Me,
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| Doesn't matter
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| I won't sleep
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| Whole bed
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| I'll turn over
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| I don't wish
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| I can not,
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| Better for owls
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| I will run away…”
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| I shouted: - Zhenya, brother, trouble!
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| After all, two owls are flying here!
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| Here you made a mess! |
| —
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| And I told him everything.
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| And Zhenya immediately fell silent,
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| As if he had never screamed in his life.
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| And more he in the evenings
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| Does not raise rams.
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| As soon as they say: "It's time to sleep,"
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| He sleeps until morning.
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| And owls don't sleep at night
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| Capricious guys are guarded. |