The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-12
CEMENT BY EEoPoE
$m Translated by A. S. Arthur and C. Asheigh
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goes oth Bad District of
the On the he makes Advances her whch she tries
repuse Their attacked by Cossak bandits, the coach
shot dUn Badm disappears and Dasha taken
AND lighter longer
smelt between
this mounted officer and the band She looked attentiely
Colonel Her scarf had been off and trampled the melee Fight
firmly planted in the earth.
"Yom hairs bobbed. Are you a Communist"
eyes, working woman"
"Who with you n the carrage?"
"Comrade Badin, Chairman of the Pokom" ="
"Polkom? What language is that?
Russian. What else?"
"You lie The Russian language not like that It's
gon-Yiddish thieves slang"
"n Soviet Russia haven't many thieves
out mercy" ,. sd
Someone guffawed behind her like 5ss5s~
"The damned female She chatters like magpe!" ff M
another tune"
Neither Dasha the Colonel ceased their
"And all like this Chief yOurs'
the proper thing to abandon comrades in danger?"
m cd NEVER happen happens Ii. acted of my own accord
and puffed out. He smiled.
Your aecord Were reckoning Stupidity" q
ITS your business to puzzle it out did iand that's ALI"
The Colonel was swinging his ridngwhp and looking at her
with smile of Kamuk idol.
AND all the time extraordinary She breathd
- regularly and calmly; her mind was empy-no thought pity
free and She wondering lonely pneee
the cliff attracted her just at the top of the
the mountain slopes purple hue But neither the pne-ree
deep near winged give a name
You speak frankly and without fear shOrthaired girl
had Usually when Communists fall into hands, sqrm
you're imagine that for moment I'm going
to hang you Il shall not shoot YOU but just have hanged
a 6 all the same n to n me- h, was prepared t for it,
81 mplacab enemy destroy every Communist
without mercy However must admit that yourself WE'LL
WITHOUT taking his whip head
the His beard did hide his lips which eyes
of Dasa and his hand was also heavy and cammy
It seemed not his hand leading her but that his
She might fall beneath the burden of it. "H' il'N'sn'
That pinetree the opaque fiery Oh
how hight There intoxicating spring. young
leaves were ung and changing their coors like into
rainbow hue The brook played with the though they
ratte And this heavy ntoerabe hand dragging
shmerg ar Everything was so clear transparent and winged
And because the hand pressing like dead body her
which could not be put off, How sweet was the spring T
tree in flight leaned the precp stretching Oh
Row a ge ne Ba M s ad Badn
only blade of grass she was-and is
NEAR the hairy shifting blowing his nose She
did not him. she only the air and purple depths
There was the raspng of rope somewhere far
at all '" ''A ''D'A Asf senses or no her
GIeb happened long ago. Dear stupid
but she felt no regret Oh how far the purple depths the
plne-tree
Again the sliding
the heavy hand like dead body shoulder
Yes, she walking back the sky the
brown slope and behind the dim behind
distance, up to the sky the mountain.
The Colonel looking her ubbornly
moustache hung wet like his lips and chin.
herself this
You're pretty brave with the short har
part WELL Especially you're You
will touch you"
With his whip he swinging horse In couple
of bounds it had disappeared in the thicket. (,
The Pued Up Chicken. 4
nASHA could remember of that valev
She did remember whether she
whether she alone whether she crawed
with the last remnants of her strength She
thing, bright and joyful little gyufted Their
returned They twtered and back
Perhaps this didn't really
now-the little grey birds with
In the wide before the mountains spreading in gently
sopng owland she felt that she
bare misty distances The road glowing as-colored all
the land seemed mbud with primitive crawed
toward her like blind intangible emptiness transforming into
grain of invisible -
The mountains behind climbed
pices Cliffs slopes and valleys black rayines