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SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 1, by                    
First Line: "across the don a plank lay, thin and bending"
Last Line: "they cannot hear my voice, / they cannot see my burning tears"
Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians


ACROSS the Don a plank lay, thin and bending;
No foot along it passed.
But I alone, the young one, from the hill,
I went along it with my true-love dear,
And to my love I said:
"O darling, dear!
Beat not thy wife without a cause,
But only for good cause beat thou thy wife,
And for a great offence.
Far away is my father dear,
And farther still my mother dear;
They cannot hear my voice,
They cannot see my burning tears."





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