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Walter de la Mare
1873 - 1956
(Уолтер Де ла Мар)

ЭПИТАФИЯ

AN EPITAPH

HERE lies a most beautiful lady,
    Light of step and heart was she:
I think she was the most beautiful lady
    That ever was in the West Country.
But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;
    However rare, rare it be;
And when I crumble who shall remember
    This lady of the West Country?

НОЯБРЬ

NOVEMBER

THERE is wind where the rose was,

Cold rain where sweet grass was,

And clouds like sheep

Stream o'er the steep

Grey skies where the lark was.

 

Nought warm where your hand was,

Nought gold where your hair was,

But phantom, forlorn,

Beneath the thorn,

Your ghost where your face was.

 

Cold wind where your voice was,

Tears, tears where my heart was,

And ever with me,

Child, ever with me,

Silence where hope was.

НАПОЛЕОН  

Napoleon

'WHAT is the world, O soldiers?

       It is I:

I, this incessant snow,

This northern sky;

Soldiers, this solitude

Through which we go

       Is I.'

The Song of Finis

Песня конца

AT the edge of All the Ages
A Knight sate on his steed,
His armor red and thin with rust
His soul from sorrow freed;
And he lifted up his visor
From a face of skin and bone,
And his horse turned head and whinnied
As the twain stood there alone.
No bird above that steep of time
Sang of a livelong quest;
No wind breathed,
Rest:
"Lone for an end!" cried Knight to steed,
Loosed an eager rein--
Charged with his challenge into space:
And quiet did quiet remain.

© 2007 Elena and Yacov Feldman