ШЕКСПИР. СОНЕТ L
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Пусть тяжек путь, но я его избрал.
Скрипит седло, натружена подпруга.
Тоске – вино, а путнику – привал,
За сотню миль от дорогого друга.
Мой конь влачит печаль моей души
Он еле тащится от непосильной ноши –
Негоже вдаль от радости спешить,
Бежать от счастья, загоняя лошадь.
Не шпоры окровавленной удар –
Но боль моя не пожалеет шкуры,
Не внемлет стонам, тщетны череда
Обид коня и слез фиоритуры.
Стон моего коня немного значит,
Коль горе впереди – о радости не плачут.
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How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek (my weary travel′s end)
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
′Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend.′
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
As if by some instinct the wretch did know
His rider loved not speed, being made from thee:
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on
That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide,
Which heavily he answers with a groan
More sharp to me than spurring to his side;
For that same groan doth put this in my mind:
My grief lies onward and my joy behind.
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Поэзия : Два чоловіки (Two Husbands) - Калінін Микола Це переклад з Роберта У. Сервіса (Robert W. Service)
Unpenitent, I grieve to state,
Two good men stood by heaven's gate,
Saint Peter coming to await.
The stopped the Keeper of the Keys,
Saying: "What suppliants are these,
Who wait me not on bended knees?
"To get my heavenly Okay
A man should have been used to pray,
Or suffered in some grievous way."
"Oh I have suffered," cried the first.
"Of wives I had the wicked worst,
Who made my life a plague accurst.
"Such martyrdom no tongue can tell;
In mercy's name it is not well
To doom me to another hell."
Saint Peter said: "I comprehend;
But tribulations have their end.
The gate is open, - go my friend."
Then said the second: "What of me?
More I deserve to pass than he,
For I've been wedded twice, you see."
Saint Peter looked at him a while,
And then he answered with a smile:
"Your application I will file.
"Yet twice in double yoke you've driven...
Though sinners with our Saints we leaven,
We don't take IMBECILES in heaven."