Текст песни Белорусские песняры - Сонет No.65

Sonnet 65
If copper, granite, earth and sea
They will not resist when the deadline comes to them,
How can it survive, arguing with death,
Is your beauty a helpless flower?
How to keep the breath of scarlet rose,
When a difficult siege
The unshakable crushes the rocks
And destroys bronze of statues and columns?
Oh bitter thought! .. Where, what
Find the refuge for beauty?
How, stopping the pendulum with a hand,
The color of the time from time to save? ..

There is no hope. But the bright appearance is cute
They will save, perhaps, black ink!

Translation by S. Marshak