When I abandoned you (now I’m
Without a doubt true)
I was in love with you that time
As deep as I could do.
To see you now I am not glad,
Reluctant am to tweet,
Your curious look, wide-eyed and sad,
I do not want to meet.
In vain you keep on telling tales
Of home in the range -
All those pleasures tip the scales
In favor of too strange!
Believe me, I have seen Life Seas,
A lot of hurt I’ve had…
I have forgotten many glees
As well as tears shed.
Когда с тобой расстался я —
Я не хочу таить,
Что я тогда любил тебя,
Как только мог любить.
Но нашей встрече я не рад.
Упорно я молчу —
И твой глубокий, грустный взгляд
Понять я не хочу.
И всё толкуешь ты со мной
О милой стороне.
Но то блаженство, боже мой,
Теперь так чуждо мне!
Поверь: с тех пор я много жил,
И много перенёс…
И много радостей забыл,
И много глупых слёз.
«However burdensome the end, / that thing we'll never comprehend, / our mortal suffering's exhaustion, / more horror in our souls is roused / by watching one by one being doused / our every cherished recollection.»
«Living sparks no longer answer friendly banter. / There's deepest night in me. Dawn it will not see. / Soon there'll fly into the gloom, unnoticed, / The dying fire's thin smoke, the last there'll ever be.»
«Separation has this lofty meaning: / if love lasts years, / if but a day it takes, / loveТs just a dream / and weТre a moment dreaming, / and whether early, whether late the waking, / the time must finally arrive when we awake.»
«Melting in the air above the valley, / distant bells are chiming / like flocks of flapping cranes, / dying away in the rustle of leaves, / bright, like the swelling sea of spring, / crystal-like, like day at a distance, / while faster, quieter, / shadow lies around the valley.»