Afterflakes
Dec. 7th, 2009 10:51 pmIn the thick of a teeming snowfall
I saw my shadow on snow.
I turned and looked back up at the sky,
Where we still look to ask the why
Of everuthing below.
If I shed such a darkness,
If the reason was in me,
The shadow of mine should show in form
Against the shapeless shadow of storm,
How swarthly I must be.
I turned and looked back upward.
The whole sky was blue;
Ahd the thick flakes floating at a pause
Where but frost knots on an airy gauze,
With the sun shining through.
(Robert FROST)
I saw my shadow on snow.
I turned and looked back up at the sky,
Where we still look to ask the why
Of everuthing below.
If I shed such a darkness,
If the reason was in me,
The shadow of mine should show in form
Against the shapeless shadow of storm,
How swarthly I must be.
I turned and looked back upward.
The whole sky was blue;
Ahd the thick flakes floating at a pause
Where but frost knots on an airy gauze,
With the sun shining through.
(Robert FROST)
Р.Фрост - После снегопада
Date: 2009-12-07 07:57 pm (UTC)И тень предо мною ложится.
И к небу я поднял глаза, куда
С вопросом вечным глядим всегда -
Про всё, что внизу творится.
Не я ли накликал такую тьму?
Но если во мне причина,
То тень моя, чёрная на снегу,
Отчётливо видная и в пургу, -
Всего лишь двойник мой длинный.
И снова я на небо поглядел -
И всё там вдруг стало сине.
И хлопья снега меж ним и мной
Казались узорною пеленой,
И солнце жглось посредине.
(Перевод В.Топорова)