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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392373" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Russian Family History</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was born in a peaceful time and place<br>My father just out of uniform<br>The draft and ration books thrown away<br>Abundance grew in our English garden</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The empire was dissolving but its ties<br>For worse or better would long endure<br>As a future traveller to many lands<br>I would discover and learn to explore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the port of Odessa they had come<br>Leaving Smorgon village, carrying its name<br>Settling down to toil, in London's East End<br>Never to talk of Russia again</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jenny, Louis, Violet, Peg, <br>The children of the ships of 1904<br>Building a platform of support<br>For the generations to follow them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trotsky left town, Mosely came by<br>To beat on their doors and smash their store<br>They had out-run the Cossacks, how could they yield<br>To bully-boys imitating Nazi hordes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And sixty years on, summer of '91<br>A great-grandchild of those who sailed<br>Sat with his parents at the TV set<br>Transfixed by a ballet in mid-pirouette</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gorbachev confronted, then overthrown<br>The Empire and its collectives torn down<br>While Nizhni-Novgorod, from where forefathers fled <br>Lay poverty-soaked, children dying and dead</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the earth has opened its secrets so far<br>The danger is that it will all split apart<br>Its passengers spilled from the side of the Ark<br>Butterflies, mammals and cities alike</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's a pity we remember less than we forget<br>For as a child, learning from the Rabbi's tongue<br>I had a small sense of our history's ballet, <br>More agile than empires in the long run.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</a><div class=q>
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My father just out of uniform
The draft and ration books thrown away
Abundance grew in our English garden

The empire was dissolving but its ties
For worse or better would long endure
As a future traveller t..."></div>
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