Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky. Vasily Terkin (№ 299599)

Sensitive breathing shore this
Together with those that
Under the cliff waiting for the dawn,
Warm the ground belly -
Waiting for dawn, waiting for reinforcements,
Spirit to fall don't want to.
The night passes, there is no road
Neither forward nor back...
And maybe there half the night
Porosit snow in their eyes,
And for a long time
It does not melt in their sockets
And pollen is on the people -
The dead don't care.