Скользнул закат по высям отдаленным,
И вновь шепчу я сердцу моему:
Познав весь свет, равно неутоленным,
Падешь во тьму…
На всех стеблях, чья стройность длится хрупко,
Зажжется свет, затмится и пройдет…
И лишь полынь — на дне живого кубка,
Где будто был налитый на пир мед…
В миг пламени веков седая Пряха
Роняет прах, и меркнет вдруг игра,
И каждый раз для холода и страха
Влачусь я от костра…
Смыкает день стоогненные сроки
В полях земли — лишь в небе облака
Цветут, горят… Но искры их далеки!
И дрожь близка…
These nuts, that I keep in the back of the nest,
Where all my tin soldiers are lying at rest,
Were gathered in Autumn by nursie and me
In a wood with a well by the side of the sea.
This whistle we made (and how clearly it sounds!)
By the side of a field at the end of the grounds.
Of a branch of a plane, with a knife of my own,
It was nursie who made it, and nursie alone!
The stone, with the white and the yellow and grey,
We discovered I cannot tell HOW far away;
And I carried it back although weary and cold,
For though father denies it, I’m sure it is gold.
But of all my treasures the last is the king,
For there’s very few children possess such a thing;
And that is a chisel, both handle and blade,
Which a man who was really a carpenter made.
