When I shall return
When I shall come running
not leaving a trace in the snow
a-melting
Retracing my steps
hardly seen, to some warm place
and shelter
And, starting with joy
at your sweet birdish call shall
I turn
When I shall return
Hey listen
Please listen, don't laugh - when
I really return
And straight from the station
as quickly as smart with the customs
-
Right into this paultry
this damned, inconsolable, blusted
Rush into the City
I'm blamed for and cursed by my
own
When I shall return
Oh, when I shall return...
Yes, when I return
I will come to the only one Home
-
That even the Heavenly Dome
can't compete with in power
And smell of incense
like the orphanage bread, hard
and sour
Will flow into me
and start gleaming inside me, so
warm
When I shall return...
Oh, when I return
Larks will sing in the winter at
ease
That very old tune
that forgotten, that uncounterfeited
-
And then I will fall
by my victory overdefeated
And bury my head, like a ship
'gainst the berth of your knees
When I shall return...
So -
When shall I return?