ToVN:Venäjä 1941

Wait For Me

Wait for me, and I'll come back!
Wait with all you've got!
Wait, when dreary yellow rains
Tell you, you should not.
Wait when snow is falling fast,
Wait when summer's hot,
Wait when yesterdays are past,
Others are forgot.
Wait, when from that far-off place,
Letters don't arrive.
Wait, when those with whom you wait
Doubt if I'm alive.

Wait for me, and I'll come back!
Wait in patience yet
When they tell you off by heart
That you should forget.
Even when my dearest ones
Say that I am lost,
Even when my friends give up,
Sit and count the cost,
Drink a glass of bitter wine
To the fallen friend -
Wait! And do not drink with them!
Wait until the end!

Wait for me and I'll come back,
Dodging every fate!
"What a bit of luck!" they'll say,
Those that did not wait.
They will never understand
How amidst the strife,
By your waiting for me, dear,
You had saved my life.
How I made it, we shall know,
Only you and I.
You alone knew how to wait -
We alone know why!

- Konstantin Simonov

I was killed near Rzhev

I was killed near Rzhev
In a nameless bog
In fifth company
On the left flank
In a cruel air raid

I did not hear the explosion
And did not see the flash
Down to the abyss from a cliff
No start, no end.

And in this whole world
To the end of its days
Neither patches, nor badges
From my tunic you'll Find

- A. Tvardovsky