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ÑáÕÇÝ, ÑáÕÇÝ`
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- ûùí»ó, ûùí»ó,
ÎÁÝÏÝÇ°, ÏÁÝÏÝÇ®
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àõ ëáõñ
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γٳó, ϳٳó,
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1920
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MARIONETTE
Slowly, slowly, slowly, slow,
Feet on the ground, the ground, the ground,
It came and went, it came and went,
Pale and yellow, pale and yellow.
Moving the hand - first up, then down,
Stamping its feet - a corpse, a corpse!
Coming forward, painfully, slow,
The hand falls down then up it goes.
Here, here, look, it’s bending down,
Will fall, will fall, but no, no, wait,
One lip parts from lip below,
Stops for a moment - staring at death.
Then sharply screams, as if by force,
Motionless eyes staring afar,
This is the way my soul will die
Slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly…
1920
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MARIONNETTE
Doucement, doucement, doucement, doucement,
Les pieds par terre, par terre, par terre,
Elle va et vient, elle va et vient,
Pâle et jaunâtre, pâle et jaunâtre.
Bougeant la main en haut, en bas,
Tapant le pied par terre - cadavre -
Puis s'avançant péniblement,
Branlant la main en haut, en bas.
Voilà, voilà - elle se détraque,
Elle va tomber... mais non, regarde.
Ses lèvres s'écartent lentement,
Puis elle s'arrête, l’œil à la mort.
Elle a poussé un cri perçant, à contrecœur,
Les yeux figés, fixés au loin,
C'est ainsi que mon âme mourra,
Doucement, doucement, doucement, doucement.
1920
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The Armenian poet Yeghishé Charents was born
in Kars, a provincial Armenian city under the rule of
Imperial Russia. At seventeen, already author of published
poems, he joined an Armenian volunteer army to fight
against the Turks for the liberation of his people.
He witnessed the 
calamities
of World War I, and the extermination of his countrymen
in 1915 by the Ottoman Government. The outcome of his
bitter impressions was the poem, “Dante-esque
Legend” which made him famous at nineteen...
