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May God blind men's eyes back
and back to straighten the hunchback.
May God be God even slightly,
but can not be a little crucified.

May God not to plunge into the power
and heroics forged,
and be rich - but not to steal,
Of course, if that is possible.

May God be an old hand,
not devoured nicheyu gang,
or be a victim nor an executioner,
neither gentleman nor a beggar.

God grant smaller lacerations,
when there is a big fight.
God grant more different countries,
without losing their own, however.

God grant that your country
you are not kicked beetle-crusher.
God grant that your wife
I loved you, even to the poor.

May God close the mouth of liars,
hearing the voice of God in the children cry.
May God see the living Christ,
let not man's, so in the face of a female.

Do not cross - beskreste we are,
and how to bend pathetic.
So as not to have lost faith in everything,
God forbid if only a little bit of God!

May God grant all, all, all
and all at once - so as not to hurt ...
May God grant all, but only that,
what then will not be ashamed.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 1990



See also the poetry Robert Rozhdestvensky and Larissa Rubalskoy

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