R.Rozhdestvensky, The Moments - Song -Translation (Rus.) Poem by Lyudmila Purgina

The song about the moments (instants)
One of the best songs about life
http: //www.100pesen.ru/index/mgnovenija/0-46

By Robert Rozhdestvensky

The song is from Soviet film
'The seventeen moments of spring'
Producer Tatiana Lioznova
http: //serialonline.tv/russian/313-17-mgnovenij-vesny.html

Music by Mikael Tariverdiev
The singer is Iosif Kobson
http: //www.youtube.com/watch? v=Xkew5pkDe7A


Don't think about seconds from your height-
The time will come, and you'll accept that certainly:
They whistle as the bullets nearby...
The moments,
The moments,
The moments...

The moments are pressed into the years.
The moments are pressed into the centuries.
And I am unaware of the real:
Was it the first or was it the second blink.

And every blink has th' reasonable base.
The bells-which toll.
The signs-being drawn, etcetera...
And moments will then to u present:
The glory or the shame - or immortality!

From tiny moments - the rain consists.
The usual water downfalls from heaven...
And you are waiting half of life, at least,
When moment will come, only your's ever...

And it will come -
As one and a great drink
Of water in the heat of summer day sometimes...
In common, you must know your appeal
From first and to the last day of your real life...
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I have seen the translation with word The instants
by Alec Vagapov

http: //www.eng-rus.ru/mini/robert-rozhdestvensky-in-english/167-the-instants