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Winter Comes

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Winter scourges his horses     Through the North,     His hair is bitter snow     On the great wind.     The trees are weeping leaves     Because the nests are dead,     Because the flowers were nests of scent     And the nests had singing petals     And the flowers and nests are dead.     Your voice brings back the songs     Of every nest,     Your eyes bring back the sun     Out of the South,     Violets and roses peep     Where you have laughed the snow away     And kissed the snow away,     And in my heart there is a garden still     For the lost birds.     Song of Daghestan.

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