portent - предостережение

слова и музыка А. Галича (Гинзбурга)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljiWrfZcjqU
 --  -- http://www.bards.ru/archives/part.php?id=4135

oh, you Jews, do not furnish by tunics,
you won't go as superiors, Jews!
do not grieve in vain, do not moan, -
you won't sit in either the' Senate or the Synod.

but you will sit in cages and in coops,
and you will walk with no laces on your shoes,
and you will not make l'chaim on Shabbes,
and you'll be dragged to be questioned with a minders.

whether you trade in myrrh, _oil or fuel,
whether you become a useful Jew,
you will be allowed to be called Ace ... of donkey
and they'll decorate the kaftan with an aglet.

but if even you become the first here,
you still can and may not be a superior,
there's no coming with oil to be Jove/Phoebus,
so don't you furnish by tunics, you Jews!

it's true, it's true, it's a truth,
so it was, and I guess, will in future.
maybe morrow, may be even sooner...
hence/oh, don't sew tunics, you Jews!

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