ещё об Америке: Оден (по-английски)
Sep. 28th, 2001 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avvaВот что писал Оден в 1956-м году:
W.H.Auden
There Will Be No Peace
Though mild clear weather
Smile again on the shire of your esteem
And its colors come back, the storm has changed you:
You will not forget, ever,
The darkness blotting out hope, the gale
Prophesying your downfall.
You must live with your knowledge.
Way back, beyond, outside of you are others,
In moonless absences you never heard of,
Who have certainly heard of you,
Beings of unknown number and gender:
And they do not like you.
What have you done to them?
Nothing? Nothing is not an answer;
You will come to believe - how can you help it? -
That you did, you did do something;
You will find yourself wishing you could make them laugh,
You will long for their friendship.
There will be no peace.
Fight back, then, with such courage as you have
And every unchivalrous dodge you know of,
Clear in your conscience on this:
Their cause, if they had one, is nothing to them now;
They hate for hate's sake.
W.H.Auden
There Will Be No Peace
Though mild clear weather
Smile again on the shire of your esteem
And its colors come back, the storm has changed you:
You will not forget, ever,
The darkness blotting out hope, the gale
Prophesying your downfall.
You must live with your knowledge.
Way back, beyond, outside of you are others,
In moonless absences you never heard of,
Who have certainly heard of you,
Beings of unknown number and gender:
And they do not like you.
What have you done to them?
Nothing? Nothing is not an answer;
You will come to believe - how can you help it? -
That you did, you did do something;
You will find yourself wishing you could make them laugh,
You will long for their friendship.
There will be no peace.
Fight back, then, with such courage as you have
And every unchivalrous dodge you know of,
Clear in your conscience on this:
Their cause, if they had one, is nothing to them now;
They hate for hate's sake.
Brother Himmelstein
Date: 2001-09-28 03:02 pm (UTC)I'm not afraid of lost virility:
let the more loving one be me.
Up on the train - here I would doze off.
Let the more loving one be Joseph.
I live alone, will die alone:
Let the more loving be no one.
W.H. Auden, 1913 - Paris
Re: Brother Himmelstein
 ÷¸ì ñìûñë ýòîé ãëóïîé âûõîäêè - ìíå íå ïîíÿòü.
Re: Brother Himmelstein
Date: 2001-09-29 10:46 pm (UTC)