every fourth


Oh like a bird flying high
Through bad weather and darkness.
Every fourth at Falcon sky
Every fourth brought down on the fly.

Did you forget the terrible night
Wounded moaning branches of foliage
Every fourth dubochek in the grove,
Every fourth died in a storm.

The sound of this song, sad songs
Forever with me, forever in me.
One in four of the Belarusians,
Every fourth fell in the war. 1975