Throughout blue nights
glisten mountains’ eyes,
eyes of death, eyes of fright,
by icy horror paralysed.
Charmed by some spell
till Dawn’s first beams,
in hazy menace they dream,
like all those ancient kings who fell.
But let the East begin to shine
and the fatal charms are broken.
High up and first in line
the eldest brother has awoken.
From the head of the next there rolls
a stream onto the heads of all the others,
till, glistening in crowns of gold,
all the family’s resurrected with the brothers!
Сквозь лазурный сумрак ночи
Альпы снежные глядят —
Помертвелые их очи
Льдистым ужасом разят —
Властью некой обаянны,
До восшествия Зари
Дремлют, грозны и туманны,
Словно падшие цари!..
Но Восток лишь заалеет,
Чарам гибельным конец —
Первый в небе просветлеет
Брата старшего венец.
И с главы большого брата
На меньших бежит струя,
И блестит в венцах из злата
Вся воскресшая Семья!..
«Mid the celestial world and star array, / But One Star's name I speak in fascination; / Not really that I loved Her in some way; / It is that She's my sole illumination. And should a doubt exert its heavy toll, / Then Her alone I seek to guide my action; / Not for the light She emanat...»
«Beyond the chimneys and steeples, / baptized by smoke and flame, / stamping-footed archangel, / down the decades I call your name! Rock-steady or change-at-a-whim! / Coachman and stallion in one! / He snorts and spits into his palm — / chariot of glory, hold on! Singer of city-square...»
«Loving, I am still dumbfounded / by the world and its beauty, / and nothing will make me renounce / the sweetness you grant me. However hard my breath come, / while I stand here on earth / the sound of new life will be welcome / wherever it stirs. Submissive to the sun’s rays, / ro...»
«Clouds that whiten in a dome of blue / and twisted trees sharply delineated, / the dust aglow, each shadow elongated / and phantoms that pass through the heart anew. Why was the tale so brief? I cannot say. / Was there a second half I didn’t know? / In pale skies the clouds dissolve awa...»