In The Ancient Time Rasul Gamzatov Poem by Yuri Starostin

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In the ancient time to write did slowly
The grandfathers did on the daggers and by the daggers
That with the tip of a pencil
In vain by the languid words I do to verb.

The grandfathers on the disheveled horses
In the fight were skipped, said goodbye to the darlings,
And wrote by the blood on the stones
That I doing in vain to write by the ink.

N.Grebneva's lane

The Soviet poetry. In 2 volumes.
Library of the world literature. A series the third.
Editors A.Krakovskaja, J.Rozenbljum.
Moscow: Fiction,1977.