| А по-над водою туман расстилается; | Above the water, ghostly veils of mist unfurl; |
| Стынет авто. | The carriage chills in dawn’s uncertain breath. |
| Снова в дальний путь с утра собирается | Once more, by morning’s summons to the distant world |
| Цирк-шапито. | The circus—Shapito—prepares its wandering path. |
| Робко по полям от взглядов хоронится, | Timid, our love skulks through the fields, fleeing eyes, |
| Ломится в дверь, | Rattling the door of fate with furtive hand. |
| Наша неприкаянная любовь, | Our vagrant, unacquainted love, denied repose, |
| Раненый зверь. | Bleeds in the grass—a wounded, cornered beast. |
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| Скрип колеса, | The wheel’s lament, a thin cry in the gloom, |
| Лужи и грязь дорог. | Roads sodden, muddied by the droves of rain. |
| Скрип колеса, | The wheel’s lament, a thin cry in the gloom, |
| Лужи и грязь дорог… | Roads sodden, muddied by the droves of rain… |
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| Сотни тысяч лет нам мыкать поровну, | For countless centuries, we bear a common yoke, |
| Мне и тебе, | You and I, entwined beneath the ancient sky, |
| Всё, что не склевали злые вороны | All that the ravenous crows have left unbroken |
| В нашей судьбе. | Within the frail inheritance of fate. |
| Сотни тысяч лет нам ждать возничего, | For centuries we wait—no charioteer arrives, |
| И с окриком – "Слазь!" | And with a bark—“Descend!”—we’re cast aside. |
| С сердцем богача, с сумою нищего | With a miser’s heart, with a beggar’s knapsack tied, |
| Плюхнуться в грязь. | We tumble, graceless, to the mire’s embrace. |
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| Скрип колеса, | The wheel’s lament, a thin cry in the gloom, |
| Лужи и грязь дорог. | Roads sodden, muddied by the droves of rain. |
| Скрип колеса, | The wheel’s lament, a thin cry in the gloom, |
| Лужи и грязь дорог… | Roads sodden, muddied by the droves of rain… |
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| Вымешать до дна, и пусть преследуют | Stir to the dregs, let grief and shadow hound us, |
| Горе и мрак. | Let sorrow and dusk pursue wherever we stray. |
| Только жизнь одна, и помнить следует, | But only one brief life—remember, it surrounds us— |
| Рядом овраг. | The ravine is always waiting at the edge of day. |
| А по-над водою туман расстилается. | Above the water, ghostly veils of mist unfurl. |
| Стынет авто. | The carriage chills in dawn’s uncertain breath. |
| Снова в дальний путь с утра собирается | Once more, by morning’s summons to the distant world |
| Цирк-шапито… | The circus—Shapito—prepares its wandering path… |
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| Скрип колеса, | The wheel’s lament, a thin cry in the gloom, |
| Лужи и грязь дорог. | Roads sodden, muddied by the droves of rain. |
| Скрип колеса, | The wheel’s lament, a thin cry in the gloom, |
| Лужи и грязь дорог… | Roads sodden, muddied by the droves of rain… |
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| Скрип колеса, | The wheel’s lament, a thin cry in the gloom, |
| Лужи и грязь дорог. | Roads sodden, muddied by the droves of rain. |
| Скрип колеса, | The wheel’s lament, a thin cry in the gloom, |
| Лужи и грязь дорог… | Roads sodden, muddied by the droves of rain… |