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Mute was the marble Mutely glimmered the glass	A
Mute stood the sentries bronzed by the breeze	B
Thin wisps of smoke curled over the coffin	C
And breath seeped through the chinks	D
as they bore him out the mausoleum doors	E
Slowly the coffin floated grazing the fized bayonets	F
He also was mute his embalmed fists	G
just pretending to be dead he watched from inside	H
He wished to fix each pallbearer in his memory	I
young recruits from Ryazan and Kursk	J
so that later he might collect enough strength for a sortie	I
rise from the grave and reach these unreflecting youths	K
He was scheming Had merely dozed off	L
And I appealing to our government petition them	M
to double and treble the sentries guarding this slab	N
and stop Stalin from ever rising again	O
and with Stalin the past	P
I refer not to the past so holy and glorious	Q
of Turksib and Magnitka and the flag raised over Berlin	C
By the past in this case I mean the neglect	R
of the people's good false charges the jailing of innocent men	O
We sowed our crops honestly	I
Honestly we smelted metal	S
and honestly we marched joining the ranks	T
But he feared us Believing in the great goal	U
he judged all means justified to that great end	V
He was far sighted Adept in the art of political warfare	W
he left many heirs behind on this globe	X
I fancy there's a telephone in that coffin	C
Stalin instructs Enver Hoxha	Y
From that coffin where else does the cable go	J
No Stalin has not given up He thinks he can cheat death	Z
We carried him from the mausoleum	A2
But how remove Stalin's heirs from Stalin	B2
Some of his heirs tend roses in retirement	C2
thinking in secret their enforced leisure will not last	P
Others from platforms even heap abuse on Stalin	B2
but at night yearn for the good old days	D2
No wonder Stalin's heirs seem to suffer	E2
these days from heart trouble They the former henchmen	B2
hate this era of emptied prison camps	F2
and auditoriums full of people listening to poets	G2
The Party discourages me from being smug	J
'Why care ' some say but I can't remain inactive	H2
While Stalin's heirs walk this earth	I2
Stalin I fancy still lurks in the mausoleum	A2
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Translated by George Reavey	H2

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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