When day's light fades far away
And in darkness descends on huts,
The whole sky glitters overhead,
A colossal atom in motion sways.
And often by this dream I'm in torment,
That in another corner of the universe,
The same garden, darkness and stars
Exist, their beauty forever unspent.
And perhaps some other poet seems
To stand anguished in this garden,
Asking why, in my fading years,
I torment him with dark dreams.
Когда вдали угаснет свет дневной
И в черной мгле, склоняющейся к хатам,
Все небо заиграет надо мной,
Как колоссальный движущийся атом, —
В который раз томит меня мечта,
Что где-то там, в другом углу вселенной,
Такой же сад, и та же темнота,
И те же звезды в красоте нетленной.
И может быть, какой-нибудь поэт
Стоит в саду и думает с тоскою,
Зачем его я на исходе лет
Своей мечтой туманной беспокою.
«You’re always enigmatic and new, / And I am ready to serve your desire, / But the love that I’m getting from you / Is a trial by iron and fire. You don’t allow me to smile or sing, / You’ve forbid me to pray long ago. / And I’m glad to lose everything / Just so long as you don...»
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«When at night I’m waiting her arrival, / Life, it seems, is hanging by a thread. / Glory, youth and freedom cannot rival / The joy she brings me, with a flute in hand. She enters, and before I can discern her, / She stares at me with an attentive eye. / “Were you”, I ask, “the cau...»
«For all the foolishness I’ve said, / The punishment is heavy, / I could receive a pea of lead / From the secretary.* ____ / * Joseph Stalin: (December 18, 1878 — March 5, 1953) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death...»