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БЫЛИ КОГДА-ТО И МЫ РЫСАКАМИ (sent
fixed WO (said when a person is recalling his youth, happier days, and his youthful derring-do) there was a time when we, too, were young and in our prime
we too had our hour of glory
we too were young and daring once.
From Aleksei Apukhtin's poem "A Team of Bays" («Пара гнедых»), 1895. The original line has «вы» (rather than «мы»).