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Шотландский ветер Лермонтова

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And, frolicking, above the mottled plains,

The raptor rushes straight out of the blue,

Hoving between clouds and into view.

Colossus-like, eternity bestrides

Impermanence to strike the mind of man.

The boundless ocean of the steppe elides

Description, turning blue across its span,

Sounding universal harmony, and this,

For us, is suffering or bliss:

All becomes transparent, but this weight

Will count when we present ourselves to fate.

Who has ever sat among the peaks

In that hour when day holds precious light,

Gazed westwards, where the bright planet leaps

Into the sky, while shades of looming night

Gather in the east, the scarps, ravines, beams

Glinting all around the tops of loftiest extremes,

And where the weird crown of cloud ignites

After the storm, the rays glancing in the heights;

For him, a heavy heart, of former years

Full, and beating fiercely; this mad ideal

Breathes life into a skeleton, the same tears

And almost all the beauty of the real,

Just as the vain man’s hungry gaze retains

The image of his portrait, though not much remains

Of likeness to the eyes’ bright lustre on the board portrayed

And that long effaced by time as vital passions fade.

Is anything on earth more splendid than these pyramids

Of Nature, majestic snowy pinnacles,

Whose flanks may disappear amidst

The mist, but no man’s victories or miracles

Compare to what is seen there, where clouds seem

Like crowds and lightning wreathes the beam

Of light that tops the rocks; nothing imaginary is real

And he who has seen heaven need not fear the corporeal.

But the steppe, when unbounded, stirs unease

With its mile upon mile of waving feathergrass.

No purpose in the meandering north-east breeze

As it kicks up dust willy-nilly in its path;

And, where all around, how cruelly to the eye is lacking

The sight of two or three birch trees, backing

Into the distance under the bluish haze

And fading to black in the emptying of days.

And, when there’s no struggle, life’s a drag.

Having found a way in, the colour of the years

Starts to fade and vital spirits sag –

There’s little left now that the soul cheers.

So, each day I must perform some mighty work

Of which immortals would be proud, not shirk

An acting hero’s duties or comprehend

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