A dove flew under the dome of a rural temple,
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Early in the morning he watched him joyfully,
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Leaving the church fence, he was waiting for miracles,
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Under the blue of the sky, his father-forest was calling.
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The smell of those places: groves, meadows and arable land,
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His hand will collect them into pencil sketches,
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Russian fairy tales among the people are full of dense secrets,
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And black horror roams their fields, reading...
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Fedya loved literature,
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I drank a lot of tea, smoked a lot and thought a lot,
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He recalled how his mother was dying of a sneeze,
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That's why her face is remembered so clearly.
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Crossed out again, what he wrote from the spring,
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I. Father was probably killed by serfs,
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Passers-by floated along the pavements,
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Through the thick frosty smoke, into the paws of trouble.
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Here they drink a lot to the music of evening blizzards,
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Eternal vicious circle, St. Petersburg,
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Poor people, white nights
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The sounds of the crowd, the scattering of dots...
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And suddenly it all ended, the forty-ninth year,
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And someone pulls, someone leads to the scaffold,
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Still alive, but the wind boldly whips on the face,
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He was waiting to be shot at the Semyonovsky parade ground.
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In shackles, ahead of the Siberian highway,
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Where love burns, fear recedes,
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To Siberia, to prison, the Cross is the road,
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Boys in the streets will find and lose God.
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In shackles, ahead of the Siberian highway,
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Where love burns, fear recedes,
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To Siberia, to prison, the Cross is the road,
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Boys in the streets will find and lose God.
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Where the bunks are two stories high, among the Cathars,
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Where the look of people did not express anything,
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He waited, he greedily looked into faces with black mouths,
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Then he will remember and write down everything about the dead house.
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About that bottomless mountain of the stigmatized and outcast,
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Nameless, clinging to hope
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About the fact that between them there are those who are able to forgive,
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That white clothes should be worn.
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Overpower this path going,
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And let him fall in an epileptic fit at the end,
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Lieutenant Dostoevsky recognizes his people,
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The one who goes this way for the world Idiot.
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And Radion will then sew the loop to the lining,
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Stealthily watching the old woman fiddling with her hair,
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Payment requires debts, black ceilings,
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Her hints of pricking, her hands are so thin.
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The player will bet everything and lose on roulette,
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With his own hand he will leave notes in the margins,
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Will give a copper coin to a cold beggar,
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One step away from happiness, he suddenly says: "Goodbye!"
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And the waltz of the winds will lift the skirts of the coat,
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Without even looking back, he will say: "It's not that..."
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And he will go to look at that ceiling and cracks,
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In a huge room together at the corpse of a woman.
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In shackles, ahead of the Siberian highway,
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Where love burns, fear recedes,
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To Siberia, to prison, the Cross is the road,
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Boys in the streets will find and lose God.
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In shackles, ahead of the Siberian highway,
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Where love burns, fear recedes,
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To Siberia, to prison, the Cross is the road,
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Boys in the streets will find and lose God. |