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Павел Самарин
Like a flower on a mountain slope,
Life makes its way from nowhere,
And like the sun’s rays giving us hope,
Life spreads its shining everywhere.

The planet’s like an unsheltered dove
Looking for home and never finds.
Two powers reign on it - the fire of love
And the winged wind of mind.

With life, they always work together,
The fire of love and the wind of mind,
And little by little, the world’s getting better
When we’re working for the whole mankind.

And when our shadows dissolve in the dark,
Then all we’ve ever made and done,
As a miracle, our mind’s and love’s sparks,
Will live on Earth instead of our flesh and bone.

The waves of time will wash away our trace,
And winter winds extinguish our flames.
Like echoes, as a last God’s grace,
Things we have made will answer with our names.