How come Cossack


I came home on leave from the Cossack border
Where he faithfully served the motherland.
I did not recognize the foreman of the darling of the village,
Where he lived the life of the young.

I did not see any Cossack levady or hut,
From childhood memories of places I did not recognize.
Where his house stood, there is a giant excavator
An irrigation channel dug.

A village it moved to the right -
There is now even more beautiful live.
And over her wire about kolkhoz glory
About a great construction site sing.

Can not see enough of Cossack border guards -
The dam run the train!
And solemnly shine on the club stanitsa
Gold, like happiness, the star!

Where he met with the beloved dawn dawns
Today smoothly as a swan swims
According to the spring wave of the sea Tsimlyansky
From Moscow to the east boat. 1951