When sparkling like golden mountains
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Manili water western ports
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Batu's cavalry crushing the air
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The walls of cities were level with the ground.
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I clearly remember the groan of centennial stones,
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I remember clouds of arrows overhead.
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I left Ryazan among the last.
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I was alive. |
To the evil of the fire alive!
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Two centuries have passed, how long, al soon -
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It's not for me to judge. |
I don't have to compose poetry,
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But I came to Kulikovo Field
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He replenished the regiment of the left hand.
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And I chopped whom, not understanding,
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Interfering with blood, with dry Don grass
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And resisting the hordes of Mamai
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Remained, to all deaths for evil - alive!
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When the Swedish squadron is at war
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Entered the mouth of the Northern Dvina
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I stood as a wall for Tsar Peter
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At the fortress Arkhangelsk wall.
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Then I was in the taken Ishmael
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And Suvorov himself valued me.
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I followed him through the icy Alps,
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I was freezing, but still alive!
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In the forests, near Vyazma, in a snowy winter,
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Denis Davydov took me to the detachment.
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I was known among the French as Satan
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And he was known as a hero among his guys.
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On the passes of the formidable Caucasus,
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Where the voice of the echo beats between the peaks,
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I fell into Turkish captivity twice,
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But he ran away and still survived!
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In the uncompromising, terrible forty-first
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I rotted in the catacombs near Kerch.
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When everyone around was losing their nerves
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I nevertheless escaped into the shadow of the night.
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And in forty-five I entered Warsaw,
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Carrying in the palm of the span of the native border
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Under a hail of bullets. |
Order: "Not one step back!"
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I was wounded there, but I survived!
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Later, in the mountains, near Kandahar,
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I was again wounded in the left shoulder,
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But I firmly believed that everything was not in vain
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And time flows in the right direction.
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And I don't need medals, orders,
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My feat is invisible to the country.
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Habitually stroking the muzzle of the machine gun
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I'm waiting for the next war to start. |