You Are, Time, As The Executioner At The Appointed Hour By Rasul Gamzatov Poem by Yuri Starostin

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You are, time, as the executioner at the appointed hour,
Do not announcing the long sentences,
Solemnly deprive us a life
Of all the same: and the guilty and the innocent.

But there was the law in the world since the ancient time,
To ask the last wish
Those, the punishment is on,
The executioner do before to put the axe.

What is I thirst more stronger?
I live the life, what is to want me more?
The desire on the love - that's mine
And it was first, and it is the last will.

And let the total the life sum in the point hour,
I said all and I done everything I could.