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On the Negev descends the fall night
And lights up the stars very quietly
When the wind crosses on the porch
Clouds are walking on the road
Already a year we almost
haven't felt
How the times have passes in our fields
Already a year, and there are a few of us left
How many of us are not among us?
But we will remember them
Beautiful of mind and body
Because this kind of friendship
Won't let our hearts forget
Love hallowed in blood
You will return to blossom among us
The friendship, we carried you without words
Grey, stubborn, and silent
From the great fearful nights
You remain brave and burning
The friendship as your
youths
We will all again smile in your name and we'll go
For the comrades who fell with their swords
Have left your life for remembrance
And we will remember everyone...etc
In the Negev, the autumn night
falls,
And it kindles the stars in the quiet,
As the breeze rustles outside the door
And the dust settles down on the highway.
Time goes on, do we notice at all
How the months have gone by one by one?
Time goes by, there are few of us left,
They will fight till the battle is won.
And so many we once knew are gone.
They are gone from our midst,
All their laughter, their youth and their splendor.
But we know that a friendship like that,
We are bound all our lives to remember,
For a love that in battle is forged,
Will endure while we live, fierce and tender.
Oh, the friendship we bore without words,
It was silent and grey, it was wordless.
From the pain and the blood of those days,
It remains with us, ardent and yearning.
In the name of that friendship we know,
In its name we'll go on, every forward,
For those friends, when they fell on their swords,
Left us this precious gift to recall them.
They are gone from our midst,
All their laughter, their youth and their splendor.
But we know that a friendship like that,
We are bound all our lives to remember,
For a love that in battle is forged,
Will endure while we live, fierce and tender.
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