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Ills BOOTUR 1 9

A thick forest of
Guarding in pairs trees
Trembling slightly
Reminds you of
Long-haired beauties
Like long-necked swans
Holding themselves erect
Like beautiful cranes dance in group.
In front of it
Young birches with
Small tender green leaves
Remind you of
Wandering evenk-children
Moving fast and merrily.
Behind it
Black-stalked
Branches with thorns of
Sweetbriers and willows
Blacken there.
Observing attentively,
You see a green forest
With its nice pendants
Looking like a sable back
Runs further.
Looking carefully at the West
Blown by a cold draught,
You see rough mountain range
Looking like blood-eyed oxen
Butting each other
With noise and crash.
Further to the West
You see soft-stemmed
Short pines
Growing seldom,
Cracked bark,
Thick branched
Dark green firs
Dropping their thorns
Blacken further.
Long-branched