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Где мы год назад гуляли,
Но едва ли будем вновь.
В изгородях почки снова,
Как фиалки год назад
Средь раздолия лесного —
Где их нынче аромат?
Дар от сердца — птичьи трели
Из пригретого гнезда;
Той весной мы сердцем пели,
Гнезд не вили никогда.
Розам здесь цвести в избытке,
Сад они украсят ныне…
Но не встанут маргаритки
У тебя на глине.
Перевод А. Триандафилиди
Поля Фландрии
Здесь прежде были радостны поля,
Сребрилась маргаритками земля
И лютики, златясь, у вод росли,
Под изгородями примулы цвели.
Сейчас поля черны, разорены,
Разбиты изгороди, сметены,
Где первоцветов лился аромат,
Лишь крестики, поставленные в ряд.
Цветы надежд, минувших грез цветы,
Высокие и светлые мечты,
И древо жизни, и ростки любви
Растоптаны, утоплены в крови.
Хоть магия Весны извечной волей
Преобразит как должно лес и поле,
Но так не зеленеть Весне, увы:
Чернеть крестам на зелени травы!
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, The Lord Houghton (1858–1945)
A Harrow Grave in Flanders
Here in the marshland, past the battered bridge,
One of a hundred grains untimely sown,
Here, with his comrades of the hard-won ridge,
He rests, unknown.
His horoscope had seemed so plainly drawn:
School triumphs earned apace in work and play;
Friendships at will; then love’s delightful dawn
And mellowing day.
Home fostering hope; some service to the State;
Benignant age; then the long tryst to keep
Where in the yew-tree shadow congregate
His fathers sleep.
Was here the one thing needful to distil
From life’s alembic, through this holier fate,
The man’s essential soul, the hero-will?
We ask: and wait.
Anna Karenina
We readers of the older West
In wonder turn his Eastern page
Who preaches to a self-loved age
That self-forget fulness is best
Figures in grave procession shown.
No painted things of wire and wood.
But entities of flesh and blood,
With faiths and passions like our own
And She, — that soul of grace and pride,
Gripped in the vice of circumstance,
We hear, as in a breathless trance,
Of how she loved, and erred, and died.
So strong a sister’s load to share,
To eager Love’s behest so frail,
Till all his fires could not prevail
To turn the march of cold Despair,
She learned, as broke the Enchanter’s wand.
The dull reality of things;
She beat the cage with bleeding wings,
And burst into the dread Beyond.
And what of us? unveil who can
Our own decorous English life,
The tangle and the secret strife, —
The changeless heritage of man,
The jangled chords that mar the tune,
The mad desires, the hopes that die.
The tragedies that underlie
The laughter of a London June —
God knows, — who sees us as we are,
Of contradictions all compact,
The nobler aim, the baser act.
To hug the yoke, or scale the star;
From fair to foul, from foul to fair.
Like her, we drift and wander thus;
God’s mercy keep, for her, for us,
Chance of retrieval otherwhere!
Youth
“Vous en qui je salue une nouvelle aurore”
O, it’s fine to be young,
In the warmth of the Season;
All the Poets have sung”
“O, it’s fine to be young!”
When Love’s changes are rung
Upon Folly and Reason,—
O, it’s fine to be young,
In the warmth of the Season.
At Home
Who are those by the door?—
Our host and our hostess? —
Never saw them before:
Who are those by the door?
He looks such an old bore, —
She’s as white as a “ghostess”;
Who are those by the door? —
Our host!! and our hostess!!!
Disaster
“Let the wilful sun
Shine westward of our window, — straight we run
A furlong’s sigh as if the world were lost”.
She’s not asked to the Ball,
O, Despair! Desolation!
And it’s marked “Very small”,
She’s not asked to the Ball:
She has rushed off to call,
But still no invitation!
She’s not asked to the Ball,
O, Despair! Desolation!
Роберт Оффли Эшбертон Кру-Милнс, 1-й маркиз Кру, он же лорд Хоутон (1858–1945)
Могила во Фландрии
В земле болотистой под слоем дёрна
У старого моста лежит солдат
Среди других, посеянных как зёрна,
Что крепко спят.
Казалось — жизни ясен гороскоп:
Вот школа, игры, детские мечтанья,
Сердечность дружбы, и любви озноб,
И возмужанье;
Семьи надежда, гордость государства,
Преклонный возраст, и затем конец
Во глубине ухоженного царства,
Где спит отец.
Но кто сюда параграф новый внёс?
Героя смерть — нежданная помета!
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