White Cranes by Vanadis11

Mixed Medium • Fantasy • posted on Feb 01, 2009

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"Zhuravli" (engl. "Cranes")is a very famous sad song from Russia. Author of the text is Rasul Gamzatov. I was inspired for this image when I listen to this song by Dimitri Hvorostovsky. He has such a gorgeous and heartrending voice. Here is a translation of the song: Ã¢ï¿½ï¿½CranesÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½ It sometimes seemed to me that the soldiers, Who didnÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½t return from bloody fields, DidnÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½t lie down into our ground But turned into white cranes. And they are flying and are screaming their voices to us now And they do it from that old time. May be it is the reason why we often stop talking ruefully When we look in sky. The weary wedge of cranes is flying in sky, It flies in the end of the day. And there is a small interval inside this wedge May be, it is a place for me. May be, it will be a day and I shall fly With the flock of cranes in the same blue sky And I shall call everyone, whose I left in a ground, From the sky by on the language of birds.