HE'HAYIM KO KTSARIM
(SLISHKOM KOROTOK VEK)


Author: "Mashina Vremeni" ("Time Machine") and Andrei Makarevich, 1989.


He'hayim ko ktsarim, zikhronot be'kamut metsaeret -
Lo haya lanu kor, lo haya lanu khom shel' mamash;
Rak be'khol avivai mitkhazeket tkhushat sof ha'seret,
Sof oto makhazemer she'nikhtav kol' ha'zman me'khadash.

Hishtatafnu ba'seret, ve'ata tsofim bo be'nakhat,
U'muvtakhat tisa, ve'zoher lo ha'or be'nativ;
Akh higia ha'zman, ba sharat, ve'ha'delet niftakhat,
Ve'ha'kol' neheras, ve'shaon et ha'ketsev makhtiv.

Mi tsodek, mi ashem -- ana, al' nigarer le'vikuakh.
He'hayim ko ktsarim, ve'khaval al' kol' yom mevuzbaz.
Nipagesh' le'siyum be'namal-ha't'ufa ha'zanuakh,
Nenase lehaspik le'tisa she'ikharnu ei-az.


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M.M.   March 1996



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