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Alexander Pushkin — poem “The Delibash”

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The Delibash

Cross-firing behind the hills:
Both camps watch, theirs and ours;
In front of Cossaks on the hill
Dashes ‘long brave Delibash

O Delibash, not to the line come nigh,
Do have mercy on thy life;
Quick ‘t is over with thy frolic bold,
Pierced thou by the spear shalt be

Hey, Cossak, not to battle rush
The Delibash is swift as wind;
Cut he will with crooked sabre
From thy shoulders thy fearless head.

They rush with yell: are hand to hand;
And behold now what each befalls:
Already speared the Delibash is
Already headless the Cossak is!

Pushkin's farewell to the sea. 1877 painted by Repin

Translated by Ivan Panin



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The Drowned > > >

Russian LiteratureRussian PoetryChildren’s booksAlexander PushkinPoemsObsolete Russian Words and their meaning


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