So when I retire from the timeline stream
Abandoning censure and praise
Remember the kindness, the warmhearted dream
I lived on and bloomed in those days.
My darling, I know You"ll forget all the spite
There used to be on my part,
When You, like a swan, appeared, snow-white,
Impaling the depth of my heart.
I wasn't the one who had wounded Your pride,
It was someone else's design.
Dark clouds would trouble my day and my light,
Your day was brighter than mine.
So when I retire from this lifetime string
And vanish beyond the blue grid,
You will remember the song we would sing, —
I'd sing it, and You would repeat.
Когда я уйду на покой от времен,
Уйду от хулы и похвал,
Ты вспомни ту нежность, тот ласковый сон,
Которым я цвел и дышал.
Я знаю, не вспомнишь Ты, Светлая, зла,
Которое билось во мне,
Когда подходила Ты, стройно бела,
Как лебедь, к моей глубине
Не я возмущал Твою гордую лень —
То чуждая сила его.
Холодная туча смущала мой день, —
Твой день был светлей моего.
Ты вспомнишь, когда я уйду на покой,
Исчезну за синей чертой, —
Одну только песню, что пел я с Тобой,
Что Ты повторяла за мной.
«The sign says hospital — a blue haze wraps it now. / The veterinary goes over a cow. The hand painted with manganese / Feels first the udders, then the strong butt of / The tail, and soon the cow / Beneath the bull will stretch and howl with love. / They clear the nuptial circle with t...»
«Fire, the rope, the bullet and the ax, / Like servants bowed and followed where we went, / And in each drop that fell a deluge slept, / Pebbles grew into mountains where they lay, / And in a small twig trodden underfoot / Whole forests rustled, their black arms outspread. At table falseho...»
«Our rooms are turned to rolling wagons / With wheels that creak on roads of air; / And down below, the moony water / Is playing gently with green hair. We travel over crystal bridges, / Across the earth, across the sky. / Its red cheek pressed against our windows, / The sun sings out as...»
«We have unlearned how to give alms, forgotten / How to breathe the salt air above the sea, / And how to meet the dawn, and in the market / Buy golden lemons for two coins or three. / Ships call on us only by chance, and freight trains / Bring cargoes out of habit, that is all; / Just cou...»