"Small light"

(Translated by Andrey)

It is soldier's very famous and popular Soviet WWII-time song.

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"Small light"

A girl saw off a soldier
Who had to go in a frontline position.
She said him goodbye
On the footsteps of a porch at the dark night.
And all the time when her fellow could see
Her house through a fog
A small light shined
In girl's window.

Guy was met by glorious
Front collective.
Comrades were everywhere,
Friends were everywhere.
But he couldn't forget
The known street:
Where are you, my beloved girl?
Where are you, my small light?

And the girl sent a message from far away
To the fellow.
She wrote that her love
Will never die,
That everything what they decided earlier to do 
Will be fulfilled, -
The golden small light
Will not go out. [1]

And it became gaily
At heart of the soldier
As a result of so a good
Letter from her.
And fellow fights more hardly
The hateful enemy
For the Soviet Motherland,
For the dear small light.

For the Soviet Motherland,
For the dear small light.

1943

Remarks of Andrey:
[1] it is about "light of love" here

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The Russian version (translit):

"Ogoniok"

Na pozitsiiu devushka 
Provozhala boitsa. 
Tiomnoi noch'iu prostilasia 
Na stupen'kakh kryl'tsa. 
I poka za tumanami 
Videt' mog pareniok, 
Na okoshke na devich'em 
Vsio gorel ogoniok. 

Parnia vstretila slavnaia 
Frontovaia sem'ia, 
Vsiudu byli tovarishchi, 
Vsiudu byli druz'ia. 
No znakomuiu ulitsu 
Pozabyt' on ne mog: 
Gde zh ty, devushka milaia? 
Gde zh ty, moi ogoniok? 

I podruga dalekaia 
Parniu vestochku shliot, 
Chto liubov' eio devich'ia 
Nikogda ne umret; 
Vse, chto bylo zadumano, 
V svoi ispolnitsia srok,- 
Ne pogasnet bez vremeni 
Zolotoi ogoniok. 

I stanovitsia radostno 
Na dushe u boitsa 
Ot takogo khoroshego 
Ot eio pis'metsa. 
I vraga nenavistnogo 
Krepche b'iot parenek 
Za Sovetskuiu Rodinu, 
Za rodnoi ogoniok.

Za Sovetskuiu Rodinu, 
Za rodnoi ogoniok.

1943