One bearded sage concluded: there's no motion.
Without a word, another walked before him.
He couldn’t answer better; all adored him
And all agreed that he disproved that notion.
But one can see it all in a different light,
For me, another funny thought comes into play:
We watch the sun move all throughout the day
And yet the stubborn Galileo had it right.
Движенья нет, сказал мудрец брадатый.
Другой смолчал и стал пред ним ходить.
Сильнее бы не мог он возразить;
Хвалили все ответ замысловатый.
Но, господа, забавный случай сей
Другой пример на память мне приводит:
Ведь каждый день пред нами Солнце ходит,
Однако ж прав упрямый Галилей.
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«How many dear companions who enlivened for us / The world's rough road are gone, each fellow traveler / Much missed; yet say not sadly: they have left us! / But rather say, with gratitude: they were.»
«1 I don’t believe in omens or fear / Forebodings. I flee from neither slander / Nor from poison. Death does not exist. / Everyone’s immortal. Everything is too. / No point in fearing death at seventeen, / Or seventy. There’s only here and now, and light; / Neither death, nor darkn...»
«He was sitting by the river, among reeds / that peasants had been scything for their thatch. / And it was quiet there, and in his soul / it was quieter and stiller still. / He kicked off his boots and put / his feet into the water, and the water / began talking to him, not knowing / he...»