The green candles are melting.
The censer glimmers dimly, up to
The very shoulders something
Has just sunk into the earth.
At gravestones someone’s lips
Are soundlessly praying for breath.
Somebody leaning “from the cross”
Gives them yellow water to drink...
“Will it be soon?” — Patience; yes,
Soon... One’s ears are filled with
A ringing, and the corridor’s blackness
Is ever more unresponsive and thick...
No, I don’t want to, I don’t want to!
What! Neither people nor way?
A breath puts out the candle...
Quiet... You must creep...
Тают зеленые свечи,
Тускло мерцает кадило,
Что-то по самые плечи
В землю сейчас уходило,
Чьи-то беззвучно уста
Молят дыханья у плит,
Кто-то, нагнувшись, «с креста»
Желтой водой их поит…
«Скоро ль?» — Терпение, скоро…
Звоном наполнились уши,
А чернота коридора
Всё безответней и глуше…
Нет, не хочу, не хочу!
Как? Ни людей, ни пути?
Гасит дыханье свечу?
Тише… Ты должен ползти…
«1 Divine, childish-plain / The dress is, and short to the plait. / How the sides of a pyramid / Rush sides from the belt. What big rings there are / On the fingers little and dark! / What big buckles there are / On the tiny shoes! And people eat and argue, / And people are playing c...»
«2 She stands, throwing back the throat, / And bit the mouth in blood. / And set the hand against bosom — / The left one - where there is love. "On your knees!" — "What to you / Are my knees that I should bend, / Abbot?" With these words / Her last night Carmen did end.»
«The first day I recall, ferocity of childhood, / Exhaustion and the darkness of the gulp divine, / The carelessness of arms, the heartlessness of heart, / That fell onto the chest, like hawk, like stone. And now — this time — trembling from heat and pity, / One: to howl like wolf, one:...»
«Night. North-East. The soldiers cry. Waves roar. / They bombed a wine warehouse. Along the walls, / Through ditches, runs a precious torrent / And in it dances bloody moon. The trunks of the poplars are mad. / Mad also in the night, birds sing. / Empty, yesterday's monument to the tsar, /...»