– Yea, were there men when I was young,
Whose songs your tribe is not to 've sung:
        They'd fight,– you 're none as good!
An evil lot have they been drawn:
Few left the grounds to which they had gone...
Had it not been God's will alone,
        Old Moscow should have stood!
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© BORODINO.hrest.info Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov. Poem of «Borodino» (1837), electronic version of edition (2012).
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