Текст песни Иосиф Бродский.Гладков - На Васильевский остров я приду умирать

Neither country nor graveyard
I do not want to choose.
On the Vasilyevsky Island
I come to die.
Your facade navy
I do not find in the dark .
between faded lines
I fall on the pavement .

And the soul , constantly
hurrying into darkness ,
will fly over bridges
in Petrograd smoke
and the April drizzle,
nape of snow,
and I hear a voice:
- Good-bye , my friend .

And I see two lives
far beyond the river ,
indifferent to the homeland
cheek pressed .
- Like a girl sister
of unlived years
running out to the island ,
waving the boy followed .