I was not here for hundreds years,
But nothing changed for ages here…
In the same way the divine lyre
Pours bliss from the eternal crests.
Same are the waters and stars’ throngs,
And endless bleakness of skies’ domes,
And flying seeds in airy flows,
And mothers sing the same sweet songs.
Forget all troublesome and cruel —
It’s safe — my dear Asian home…
I’ll come once more. Let fences blossom
And pools be clear ones and full.
Я не была здесь лет семьсот,
Но ничего не изменилось...
Всё так же льется Божья милость
С непререкаемых высот,
Всё те же хоры звезд и вод,
Всё так же своды неба черны,
И так же ветер носит зерна,
И ту же песню мать поет.
Он прочен, мой азийский дом,
И беспокоиться не надо...
Еще приду. Цвети, ограда,
Будь полон, чистый водоем.
«She has not taken her first sigh — / She is the word and music both — / And thus of all that lives and grows / A timeless and unbroken tie. Placidly breathe the breasts of sea / The day is bright, as if gone mad, / The sea foam's pallid lilacs stand / In vase of lapis lazuli. O, wo...»
«She has yet to be born: / she is music and word, / and she eternally bonds / all life in this world. / / The sea breathes gently; / the day glitters wildly. / A bowl of dazed azure / sways pale foam-lilac. / / May I too reach back / to that ancient silence, / like a note of...»
«— She’s at the riverbed, in algae, covered / With weeds... She went to sleep there, / But there’s no dream there, as it happens. / — But I loved her, / Loved more than forty thousand brothers / Ever could have loved! / — Hamlet...»
«— She's — She's in the riverbed, in algae / And weeds...She went to them / To sleep, — but there's no sleep there, either! / — But she's the one I loved / Like forty thousand brothers / Couldn't love! / — Hamlet! / She's in the riverbed, ...»