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Вясна. . . Якуб Колас Вясна, вясна Жаданая! Ты прыйдзеш зноў, Ты вернешся! Вясёлы спеў, Прыветлівы Вады ў руччах Пачуецца. Ачнецца гай І з песнямі Ў зялёны ліст Адзенецца. Напоўніць лес Птушыны свіст, Травою луг Акрыецца. А з полудня 3 маланкаю Хмурыначка Націснецца, І першы гром, Як музыка, Таемна так Пракоціцца. Зямелька ўся Ўскалышацца, Дажджом яна Абмыецца. Ў прыродзе ўсё Народзіцца, І маладосць Ёй вернецца. Ды толькі мне Не вернешся, Не вернешся Ты, моладасць. Вясна, вясна Жаданая! Ты вернешся, Ты вернешся!

O Spring. . . by Jakub Kolas O spring, O long- Awaited one! You will return, Come back again! The joyful singing, Welcoming, Of water-brooks Be heard again, The grove will waken, And with song In green leaf clothe Itself again, The woods resound With whistling birds, The meadow wear New grass again, And from the south With levin-light The stormcloud press Its way again. And the first thunder, Music-like, Mysterious Roll forth again, And all the earth Will shake again, With rain will wash Itself again, In nature all Be born again, And youth to it Return again, But thou wilt not Return again, Return again To me, sweet youth! O spring, O long- Awaited one! You will return, Return again!

[1910]

Notes:

• English version translated and copyright ©1963; 1971-2000 by Vera Rich. English version appears in the highly recommended anthology of Belarusian poetry, Like Water, Like Fire (1971), pages 65-66.

• Note from Like Water, Like Fire, page 90: "This [English] translation was first published in Manifold, No. 6, 1963. The poem itself has been set to music and is a popular Belarusian song."

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