Волшебница Шалотт и другие стихотворения

Of those who mix all odour to the Gods

On one far height in one far-shining fire.

‘One height and one far-shining fire’

And while I fancied that my friend

For this brief idyll would require

A less diffuse and opulent end,

And would defend his judgment well,

If I should deem it over nice —

The tolling of his funeral bell

Broke on my Pagan Paradise,

And mixt the dream of classic times,

And all the phantoms of the dream,

With present grief, and made the rhymes,

That miss’d his living welcome, seem

Like would-be guests an hour too late,

Who down the highway moving on

With easy laughter find the gate

Is bolted, and the master gone.

Gone into darkness, that full light

Of friendship! past, in sleep, away

By night, into the deeper night!

The deeper night? A clearer day

Than our poor twilight dawn on earth —

If night, what barren toil to be!

What life, so maim’d by night, were worth

Our living out? Not mine to me

Remembering all the golden hours

Now silent, and so many dead,

And him the last; and laying flowers,

This wreath, above his honour’d head,

And praying that, when I from hence

Shall fade with him into the unknown,

My close of earth’s experience

May prove as peaceful as his own.

ТИРЕСИЙ

Хотел бы я вернуться в те года,

Когда зари багрянец, проникая

Сквозь кровлю век, будил мои глаза,

Еще живые, ищущие жадно

Значений, спрятанных в полете птиц,

В извивах пламени над алтарями,

И вещих знаков для мужей и жен,

И тайн, одним богам принадлежащих.

А боги, сын мой, сколько ни молись им,

Куда злопамятней земных владык.

Арес пылает гневом до сих пор:

Он зол на весь ваш род, что происходит

От Кадма, чьим ударом умерщвлен

Там, у реки, на склоне Киферона

Свернувшийся в чудовищные кольца

Гигантский змей, злосчастное отродье

Воинственного бога…

Эта быль,

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