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

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Commentary to the poem “The clock is ticking quietly...”

This poem calls to mind the words of the surah “The Spider” (ayah 64): “And this life of the world is only an amusement and a play! Verily, the home of the Here­af­ter — that is the life indeed, if they but knew.”

The quotes from the Holy Qur’an given in this publication are taken from Abdullah Yusuf Ali’s translation, Muhammad Taqi-ud-Deen al-Hilali and Mu­ham­mad Muh­sin Khan’s translation (the modern English lan­guage is turned into the traditional one) and Tafseer Ibn Kathir.

The presented text is taken from the poem “I’m mixing but with silence...” (1980).

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