1973

There's no more a sound of our battle song,
Nor a ring of hoofs of our horses,
Bullets made the holes the mess-kit along,
The young sulteress's, too, midst our losses.

We are left not many - we and our sore -
Few our solders and few ones of foes,
We're alive till now - baggers of the war,
Killed, we'll go by the Eden's roads.

Our hands lay on gun's locks, in a pine - our heads,
And our souls as if fled to heavens,
Why to write the farewell with our blood on sands?
Nature has not needs in our letters.

Sleep forever, brothers, - all will come again:
Will be born the new set of commanders,
And the new young solders - with their own pain -
Will receive official apartments.

Sleep forever brothers, - all will come again,
All will be repeated as the recent:
Love and words and bullets, blood and deathly pain…
But a time to make a truce, sufficient.