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Because once when you were young and bold
you did not leave me to rot alive among
bodies without souls or fall dead among walls
I will not let you die altogether.
Because, fresh and clean, you took me
out by the hand, to freedom and brought spring leaves
in bundles into my house I shall not
let you be grown over with weeds and forgotten.
And because you met the status of my
first grey hairs like a son with pride
greeting their terror with a child’s joy:
I shall not let you go grey into men’s hearts.
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За то, что некогда, юн и смел,
Не дал мне заживо сгнить меж тел
Бездушных, замертво пасть меж стен —
Не дам тебе — умереть совсем!
За то, что за руку, свеж и чист,
На волю вывел, весенний лист —
Вязанками приносил мне в дом! —
Не дам тебе — порасти быльём!
За то, что первых моих седин
Сыновней гордостью встретил — чин,
Ребячьей радостью встретил — страх, —
Не дам тебе — поседеть в сердцах!
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