From: alexander koryagin <koryagin@newmail.ru>

Hi All!

In my translation I have these lines (here a teacher of music (Paul 
knows him ;-) is checking the boy's faculty for music):

-----Beginning of the citation-----

     "What will you sing? Tell me!"
     "I don't know the name...."
     "Well, we'll see. You start it, and I'll find the melody."
     Maxim started, and probably, he was not very good:

                 Bonfire is barely glowing
                 And darkness has covered the camp.

     The guitar overtook his voice, and it became easier. But it was such
a song that must be sung properly if  you  start  to  sing  it  at  all.
Because it seems at once that danger is everywhere around, and very soon
everybody will rush to attack.

                 No time to unsaddle our horses
                 And sing some songs at day's end...

     Further on Maxim didn't know himself how he sang.  But,  apparently,
his voice sounded clear and with emotion because the words of that  song
were alarming and clear themselves:

                 This frail scary silence
                 Cannot be described in verse
                 The hammers in the rebels' rifles
                 Cocked like their nerves...

----- The end of the citation -----

I was told by one guy that the words of the song should be taken in 
quotation marks. Like this:

     Maxim started, and probably, he was not very good:

                 "Bonfire is barely glowing
                 And darkness has covered the camp."
etc

Should I do it or the indentation of the song's words is enough?

Bye All!
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