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SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 11, by                    
First Line: The dark mountain has grown black
Last Line: There went up voices to the heavens
Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians


THE dark mountain has grown black,
From behind it has come forth a black cloud,
A black cloud, -- a flock of sheep;
After them has come forth a proud youth,
A proud youth to the foreground:
He has girded himself with a straw girdle,
From that girdle hang two or three pipes;
The one pipe is of horn,
The second pipe is of copper,
The third pipe is of aurochs horn.
O, when he began to sound the pipe of horn,
A voice went through the forest;
O, when he began to sound the pipe of copper,
A voice went among the mountain tops;
O, when he began to play on the aurochs pipe,
There went up voices to the heavens.





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