Волшебница Шалотт и другие стихотворения

And slowly answered Arthur from the barge:

‘The old order changeth, yielding place to new,

And God fulfils Himself in many ways,

Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?

I have lived my life, and that which I have done

May He within Himself make pure! but thou,

If thou shouldst never see my face again,

Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer

Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice

Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

For what are men better than sheep or goats

That nourish a blind life within the brain,

If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer

Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

For so the whole round earth is every way

Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

But now farewell. I am going a long way

With these thou seёst — if indeed I go —

(For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)

To the island-valley of Avilion;

Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow,

Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies

Deep-meadow’d, happy, fair with orchard-lawns

And bowery hollows crown’d with summer sea,

Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.’

So said he, and the barge with oar and sail

Moved from the brink, like some full-breasted swan

That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,

Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood

With swarthy webs. Long stood Sir Bedivere

Revolving many memories, till the hull

Look’d one black dot against the verge of dawn,

And on the mere the wailing died away.

СМЕРТЬ АРТУРА

Весь день раскатывалось эхо битвы

Над зимним побережьем в Лионессе,

Пока не пали все бойцы Артура,

Сражавшиеся рядом с королем.

А сам король Артур, смертельно ранен,

Был поднят храбрым сэром Бедивером

И отнесен в часовню, что стояла,

Убогая, с разбитым алтарем,

На голой, темной полосе земли

Меж длинным озером и океаном.

Ночь белая была от полнолунья.

И так промолвил сэру Бедиверу

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