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Here is he — look — tired of the foreign lands,
A chief without friends.
Here — drinks from mountain rapids with his hand —
A knight with no land.
There's all for him: knighthood, and land,
Mother, and bread.
Great's your inheritance — so rule this land,
Friend without friends!
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Вот он — гляди — уставший от чужбин,
Вождь без дружин.
Вот — горстью пьёт из горной быстрины —
Князь без страны.
Там всё ему: и княжество, и рать,
И хлеб, и мать.
Красно́ твоё наследие, — владей,
Друг без друзей!
«I am Goya / of the bare field, by the enemy’s beak gouged / till the craters of my eyes gape / I am grief I am the tongue / of war, the embers of cities / on the snows of the year 1941 / I am hunger I am the gullet / of a woman hanged whose body like a bell / tolled over a blank ...»
«You will awaken me at dawn / And barefoot lead me to the door; / You’ll not forget me when I’m gone, / You will not see me anymore. Lord, I think, in shielding you / From the cold wind of the open door: / I’ll not forget you when I’m gone, / I shall not see you anymore. The Adm...»
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