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«Your chest is redolent,
Just like a rosemary trunk...
A most honorable lady...»
«My young honored one...»
«I'm dark, unrecognized, quiet...
With what shall I repay...»
From underneath the eyelids
Something, «With life!» did say.
In every chased-down stranger
We are serving Christ the Lord.
Mangles in mangled confusion
Handful of genuine pearls.
Pearls have been sprinkled — like tears!
Aiming with every eyelash,
He sees, while stranger picks up
Them, while fidgeting in ash.
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— Грудь Ваша благоуханна,
Как розмариновый ларчик…
Ясновельможна панна…
— Мой молодой господарчик…
— Чем заплачу за щедроты:
Тёмен, негромок, непризнан…
Из-под ресничного взлёту
Что-то ответило: — Жизнью!
В каждом пришельце гонимом
Пану мы Иезусу — служим…
Мнёт в замешательстве мнимом
Горсть неподдельных жемчужин.
Перлы рассыпались, — слёзы!
Каждой ресницей нацелясь,
Смотрит, как в прахе елозя,
Их подбирает пришелец.
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Марина. 1. Быть голубкой его орлиной!..
Марина. 2. Трём Самозванцам жена...
Марина. 3. Сердце, измена!..
Марина. 4. Грудь Ваша благоуханна...
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