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O Voice of time O metal's clang	A
Your dreadful call distresses me	B
Your groan doth beckon beckon me	B
It beckons brings me closer to my grave	C
This world I'd just begun to see	B
When death began to gnash her teeth	D
Like lightening her scythe aglint	E
She cuts my days like summer hay	F
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No creature thinks to run away	F
From under her rapacious claws	G
Prisoners kings alike are worm meat	E
Cruel elements the tomb devour	H
Time gapes to swallow glory whole	I
As rushing waters pour into the sea	B
So days and ages pour into eternity	B
And death carnivorous all eats	J
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We slide along the edge of an abyss	K
And we will someday topple in	L
With life we take at one time death	M
To die's the purpose of our birth	N
Death strikes all down without a thought	E
It shatters e'en the stars	O
Extinguishes the suns	P
It threatens every world	E
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'Tis only mortals do not think of death	M
Imagining eternal life	Q
But burglar death will come to them	R
Steal life away quite suddenly	B
Alas when we are least afraid	E
Then death more quickly catches us	S
It's swifter still than thunderstorms	T
That sweep upon majestic peaks	U
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O Child of rest of luxury and ease	V
Meshchersky whither have you gone	W
You have abandoned earthly shores	X
Retreated to the shores of death	M
Your dust is here but not your soul	I
Where has it gone There Where We do not know	Y
All we can do is weep and cry	Z
O woe to us born to this world	E
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Where once amusement joy and love	A2
Shined all together with good health	B2
Now there the blood is freezing in our veins	C2
Our souls are plagued by grief	D2
Where once a feast was spread a coffin lies	E2
The place where festive singing rang	A
Now hears but graveside keening	A
And pale death watches over all	F2
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It watches over all the kings	G2
Who hold worlds under guiding hands	H2
It watches opulent rich men	I2
Idols of silver and gold	E
It watches charm and beauty	B
It watches lofty intellect	E
It watches strength undaunted	E
And sharpens keen its scythe	J2
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Death terror nature's trepidation	K2
We're pride and poverty combined	E
Today we're Gods tomorrow dust	E
Today sweet hope inspires us	S
But where are you tomorrow man	L2
The hours you're given barely pass	M2
Before they flee to chaos bottomless	S
And your whole life a dream is gone	W
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Just like a dream like slumber sweet	E
My youth's already disappeared	E
The touch of beauty moves me less	N2
Less merriment suffuses me	B
My mind is not so frivolous	S
Nor my contentment quite so great	E
Tormented by the quest for rank	A
I hear how glory beckons me	B
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But so does also valor pass	M2
Together with the rush for fame	O2
The blandishments of wealth pass by	Z
As do the roiling passions of the heart	E
They fade and fade away in turn	P2
O leave me be all pleasures possible	Q2
Here you are transient and untrue	R2
I stand before the threshold of eternity	B
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Today tomorrow death will come	S2
Perfilev it will come for all	F2
Why should we grieve and hurt	E
Because our friend did not forever live	T2
Life's heaven's transitory gift	E
My friend so live yours peacefully	B
And let your heart in purity	B
Bless every blow of fate	E

Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin

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