| Once in the evening along a forest path
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| Soldier returning home from service
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| The path has disappeared, he has gone astray
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| Don't know, poor fellow, where to go
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| And he remembered his mother's old vow
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| Beware of spending the night in the forest, son
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| There in the thicket deaf for more than a year
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| Or maybe a hundred or two hundred years
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| Forest princess - beautiful as the night
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| Mermaids swamp and goblin's daughter
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| It's dangerous to look into her black eyes
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| Lured into the swamp to certain death
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| But the bushes parted before him
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| The girl stands unearthly beauty
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| He threw the knapsack and rushed away
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| The girl calls, offers to help
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| - "The village is on the other side of you
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| There swamp ahead come back to me "
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| Not seeing the road - in the eyes of a veil
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| He runs in the swamp, whispers - "This is she"
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| Forest princess - beautiful as the night
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| Mermaids swamp and goblin's daughter
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| It's dangerous to look into her black eyes
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| Lured into the swamp to certain death
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| The soldier of the grown-up sister did not recognize
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| After all, he had not been home for a very long time.
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| And perished in the forests under fetid water
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| The girl with the knapsack returned home
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| And the mother found a pouch in a knapsack
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| Given to my son at fourteen
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| -“Cursed witch, Satan himself,
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| I know she killed her son
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| Forest princess - beautiful as the night
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| Mermaids swamp and goblin's daughter
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| It's dangerous to look into her black eyes
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| Lured into the swamp to certain death |