Епизод - О, Шипка!

Епизод - О, Шипка!
Epizod - O, Shipka!

Използвани са кадри от филма "Героите На Шипка" 1955
Кадры из фильма "Герои Шипки" 1955
Footage from the movie "Heroes of Shipka" 1955
IMDB link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047021/


O Shipka!

For three days out youthful battalions
The pass have defended. The high mountain valleys
Re-echo the battle's tumultuous roar.
The onslaught's ferocious! Again the dense hordes
Along the ravine for the twelfth time are crawling
Where warm blood is flowing and bodies are sprawling.

A hail of fresh bullets and tree trunks and boulders;
Spattered with blood, our battalions boldly
Retaliate, every man in his own way
Striving to be in the front of the fray,
Each, like a hero, death bravely defying,
Determined to leave one more enemy dying.

A last effort's needed: the moment is grave.
And then does Stoletov, our general brave,
Roar words of great courage: "Young volunteer fighters,
Now crown Bulgaria with laurels of triumph!
The Tsar has entrusted the pass, the whole war,
Himself even, unto these muscles, of yours!"

Thus heartened, our proud and heroic battalions
Courageously meet the next thrust of the rallying
Enemy hordes!
They're all to a man ready gladly to die
On the ridge which the whole of the world can descry,
To die here like heroes triumphant, victorious .
"The whole of Bulgaria watches, supports us!"

And today, every time there's a storm in the mountain,
The summit recall this grim day and, recounting
The story, its echoing glory relays
From valley to valley, from age unto age!