Trafika Europe 7 - Ukrainian Prayer

Sweet Darusya

master of all trades, but also a bit of an oddball: he loved to do everything in a way that neither the locals nor people anywhere else would ever do. And they also say, he brought with him from the outside world a young German woman with weak lungs, so she had to walk above the water during the day in order to breathe in the moisture from the river as much as possible. The wife categorically refused to travel without her husband to warm waters for treatment. And so that it would be more cheerful for her to walk above the Cheremosh, that master thought up a small trick – he ordered the building of an arched dam, so that it seemed for his good Mrs. as if she were climbing up at first, like in the Alps, and then going down, up – down: this

way, you see, the day passes more quickly, and it seems that you’re wandering along other – distant lands. Thus, from that time you could not only walk, but also even run along the wide crest of the dam. But if you stand on this – highest –place and suddenly look down at the river, then your head can start spinning, at least anyone’s head that’s not very healthy. And if you simply look this way – for the sake of interest, then below, right under the water one can see those kinds of shoreline bushes and stones like the ones here from above. Children would play and run downward along the dam, like tiny little suns after a rain along a rainbow, and then for entire days splash in the water. But their parents prefer to give their children

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