# Poplar

**Published by:** [georgebaker7291026](https://paragraph.com/@georgebaker7291026/)
**Published on:** 2024-05-28
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@georgebaker7291026/poplar

## Content

The wind is howling through the oak tree, Walking across the field, The edge of the road bends the poplar All the way to the bottom. The stature is high, the leaf is wide It is green in vain. Around the field, like the sea Wide and blue. The Chumak comes and looks And bows his head, A shepherd in the morning with a flute Sits on the grave, He will look and his heart will ache: There are no epics around. Alone, alone, like an orphan In a foreign land, dying! Who cherished a thin, flexible woman To die in the steppe? Wait, I'll tell you everything. Listen, girls! I fell in love with a marigold A Cossack girl. She fell in love and never stopped him: He went away and died... If she had known that he would leave her She would not have loved him; If she had known that he would die I would not have let him go; If she had known, she wouldn't have gone Too late for water, I wouldn't have stayed till midnight With my darling under the willow tree... A year has passed, another year has passed. The Cossack is gone; She dries like a flower; The mother does not ask: “Why are you withering, my daughter?” The old woman did not ask, For the gray-haired, rich man She quietly united them. “Go, my daughter,” says the mother. “It's not your age to be a maiden! He is rich, he is lonely. You will be a ruler.” “I don't want to be a ruler, I will not go, mother! With the towels you bought, Let me down into the pit Let the priests sing, And let the cousins cry Easy, mom, they're in a coffin, Than to see him...” And so that marigold Cried and sang... And suddenly, in the middle of the field She became a poplar. The wind is howling in the oak tree, Walking across the field, The poplar bends the edge of the road All the way to the bottom...

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