It happens: no oblivion, no dreams,
The near shadows are roaming in the mist,
Whether you argue or you don’t, no doubts,
“Death and time are reigning on this earth”.
Death and time. Suffering – we’ll add.
...But by the morning, all of a sudden, with no cause,
With grieving happiness of existence
Something shines quietly on this earth.
Так бывает: ни сна, ни забвения,
Тени близкие бродят во мгле,
Спорь, не спорь, никакого сомнения,
"Смерть и время царят на земле".
Смерть и время. Добавим: страдание,
...Ну а к утру, без повода, вдруг,
Счастьем горестным существования
Тихо светится что - то вокруг.
«1ST VOICE Where art thou, my darling? / Lean down over me. / While I slept unfurling / Dark wings threatened me. / Night, with no dawn breaking. / Held me in its thrall. / And my heart was aching... 2ND VOICE I hear someone call. 1ST VOICE Why art thou far parted? / Void the air a...»
«Oh, where are you, Huns, who are coming? / As a cloud you swell over us here. / I can hear iron footsteps a-drumming / On the yet undiscovered Pamir. From your camps in the mist let the gathered / Hordes drunkenly fall in a flood; / Give new life to our bodies withered / With your free ...»
«ORPHEUS Can I hear your soft step treading, / Hear behind me your soft tread? / A rebellious way we’re threading, / Life’s pale pathway from the dead. EURYDICE Yours to see, but mine to hearken; / I must pace on, I must pace, / Though my face the black clouds darken, / Death’s b...»
«With fainting soul athirst for Grace, / I wandered in a desert place, / And at the crossing of the ways / I saw a sixfold Seraph blaze; / He touched mine eyes with fingers light / As sleep that cometh in the night: / And like a frighted eagle’s eyes, / They opened wide with prophecie...»