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Marina Tsvetaeva

“Белая гвардия, путь твой высок:
Черному дулу — грудь и висок.

Божье да белое твое дело:
Белое тело твое — в песок.

Не лебедей это в небе стая:
Белогвардейская рать святая
Белым видением тает, тает…

Старого мира — последний сон:
Молодость — Доблесть — Вандея — Дон.

24 марта 1918



White Guard, your path is set noble and high:
Black muzzles - your breast and temple defy.

Godly and white is the cause you fight for:
White is your body - in sands to lie.

That is no flock of swans in the sky there:
Saintly the White Guard host sails by there,
White, as a vision, to fade and die there...

One last glimpse of a world that's gone:
Manliness - Daring - Vendée - Don.”

Marina Tsvetaeva, The Demesne of the Swans
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The Demesne of the Swans The Demesne of the Swans by Marina Tsvetaeva
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