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Soyuzmultfilm
Moscow 1953

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I. A. Krylov
FABLES

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The Crow and the Fox
The Cuckoo and the Cock

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Two fables by I. A. Krylov

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written by Yu. Mihaylov, A. Shemshurin

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director Ivan Aksenchuk

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art directors
Lev Pozdneyev, Vitold Bordzilovskiy

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music Boris Chaykovskiy

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camera N. Sokolova
sound Nikolay Prilutskiy
art assistant A. Sementsov-Ogiyevskiy

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technical assistant V. Shilina
camera assistant B. Kotov
montage assistant A. Firsova

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animators Mihail Botov,
Tatyana Fyodorova, Vadim Dolgikh,
Fyodor Hitruk, Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin

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backgrounds Vera Valerianova,
Galina Nevzorova, Vera Rodzhero

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Oft has the world heard
words like these:

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"Flattery's vile!",

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and yet, it's still a potent art -

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A liar's sure to find
a place in someone's heart.

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A crow, by grace of God,
obtained a piece of cheese;

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Perched on a spruce,
and then, at last,

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Was just about to break her fast,

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But had a thought,

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the cheese still in her bill.

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Not far away, a fox was running up the hill;

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Ah! What a scent...
the odour stops the fox.

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The fox looks, sees the cheese;

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the cheese entices, mocks.

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The rogue advances to the
spruce tree on tip-toe;

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She twirls her tail,
her eyes fixed on the crow,

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And gently says, in accents low and clear: -

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"My songstress, you are such a dear!

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Your neck's so fine,

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your eyes so pretty!

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Your fame would spread through any city!

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What pretty feathers!

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What a bill!

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And doubtless,

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your angelic voice is finer still!

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Sing, sunshine, don't be shy!

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If, sister, in your leisure,

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Your beauty were abetted

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by song that gave us pleasure, -

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You'd be the queen of birds,
my treasure!"

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The harbinger's head spun
from such effusive praise,

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It took her breath away,

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her crop filled with elation, -

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And, answering the words
that set her pride ablaze,

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The vain crow...

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"Caawww!"

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...cawed out loud with full determination:

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The cheese fell -

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that fox slick
Made off with it right quick.

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The Cuckoo and the Rooster

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"My dearest Rooster!

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Your song is so strong,

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and proud!"

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"And you, dear Cuckoo, my light,

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how smoothly flows
your long-drawn-out note!

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Oh! In all our forest,
there's no other such singer!"

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"To you, my dear gossip,
I could listen for ever."

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"And as for you, my beauty
I swear that, when you are silent,

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I scarcely know how to wait
till you begin again.

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Where do you get such a voice from?

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So clear,

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so soft,

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and so high!

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But no doubt you were always like that;

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not very large in stature, but in song

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- a regular nightingale."

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"Thanks, gossip, for your words.
Upon my conscience I declare

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you sing

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better

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than a bird-of-paradise!

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The public, too, agrees with me!"

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"My friends!

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Though you may praise each other
till you're hoarse,

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Yet, all the same, your music's bad!"

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Why is it that, not fearing sin,
the Cuckoo praises the Rooster?

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Because he praises the Cuckoo.

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The End

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Re-translated by Niffiwan (2024)
based on old subs by Eus (2012)