Текст песни Роберт Рождественский - Ксении

Ksenia

Grow up, Ksenia,
                   read these lines ...
Drainpipes
already tired to blow!
For an hour you live on earth.
Take her.
          And sorry
that the land is not yet
what she needs
              be...
On earth they die and weep.
On the ground, streams run like a chant.
Palm trees are choking.
Chomping tundra moss ...
I wanted to do it
                   the most festive!
And did not have time.
I wanted to do it
                   the most smiling!
And I could not.
I was shaking over her.
                  I asked her so!
I opened the earth.
I understand her language ...
Forgive your father.
He didn't have the strength
feed the hungry
                    revive the dead
                                    barefoot shod.
We -
always a continuation.
And I
    didn't start from scratch.
We -
always continue!
The door is wide open.
Will be the happiest
                       yours and my land
The father believes in it!
And you -
       surely
                    believe! ..

You don't know yet
                       how piercing the globe is.
What is "light" -
                     do not you know.
What is "dark".
What is the "spring".
(Although you were born
in the spring.)
What is "snow".
(Although snow
full of.)
Whole hour
          you live on the planet ...
Get used to breathe.
Go on sniffing.
Start off
               with a number on hand.

Even your name
still can not you hold
in tiny,
almost untrue
                      fist.

[1971-1973]