Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. A Ballad of Love.

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Commentary to the song “People at parting said good-bye to the sea-wizard...”

This poem calls to mind Gaius Petronius Arbiter’s words: “Qui solas extruere divitias cu­rant, nihil volunt inter homines melius credi, quam quod ipsi tenet.” (“Those who only trou­ble about heap­ing up riches do not want anything to be considered better than what is in their own hands.”)

The poem was written in 1962.

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