A strange anxiety befell him,
And sweet fear overcame him.
He would stand and gaze heavenwards,
And would neither see the stars, nor the morning,
The youth with the farsighted eye.
Asleep — he saw eagles
Screaming and flocking around him,
This lead him to a wonderful explanation.
And one — the Lord of the Rocks —
Tousled his curls with his beak.
But with tightly closed eyes,
His lips parted — he was asleep.
And did not hear the night visitors
Nor see how it was sharpening its beak
The gold-spotted bird.
Приключилась с ним странная хворь,
И сладчайшая на него нашла оторопь.
Всё стоит и смотрит ввысь,
И не видит ни звёзд, ни зорь
Зорким оком своим — отрок.
А задремлет — к нему орлы
Шумнокрылые слетаются с клёкотом,
И ведут о нём дивный спор.
И один — властелин скалы —
Клювом кудри ему треплет.
Но дремучие очи сомкнув,
Но уста полураскрыв — спит себе.
И не слышит ночных гостей,
И не видит, как зоркий клюв
Златоокая вострит птица.
«Quoth nature unto me in tones of stately scorning: / "Begone, and break not in upon my harmony! / I weary of thy tears; mar not with anguished mourning / The calm wherewith my azure nights encompass me. "All have I given thee, — life, youth and freedom given, / But thou in senseless feud...»
«The eventide fondled the earth in farewell, / And in its suspense not a leaf dared to sway; / The creak of a cart far away rose and fell, / Stars marshalled aquiver in silent array. Clear-blue is the sky, — deep and strange is its guise; / But look not upon it with glances that crave, / ...»
«Not bloodshed, nor ills we engender, / Could yet fling a mantle of gloom / On the heavenly palace of splendour, / Or on earth with the lure of its bloom. As of old, we are tenderly ravished / By valleys and blossoms and rills; / Unchanging, the starlight is lavished, / And the tune that...»
«Far above the stretch of hills / The east has flung its lustre round; / Moistened breath of night-time fills / Clods of plough-uprooted ground. See, how with his measured pace / O'er the fields the sower goes; / Calm, as in God's holy place / On earth and in the heaven flows. A sacred ...»