# English ballads

А Сергеевич

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Английские баллады

English ballads


I


Sunset of rover


Something does really happen

While I go on and go on

Back on the shoulders weapon

Carrying for so long.

Sorry, my dear country,

Fatherland of my dreams,

Years that I spent discountly

Flowing in stormy streams.

Bird in the sky of brightness -

Love to unknown and clear

Flies in this wind stream's tightness

Maybe to disappear.

Weapon upon my shoulders -

Force of this love, bewinged,

Blacken and getting older

With my way's closing in.

Sunset of poor rover

Burning away from home,

And only words: It's over.

Tolls under starlight dome.

Something does really happen

While we go on and go on

Somebody takes the weapon -

Sunrise of vagabond.


II


After


When ship will be drowned in water

Of brilliant bitter tears,

The face of remorseless slaughter

Will come to the smooth abyss.


And clouds will be slightly lightened

By fire of morning star.

What wonder is: nothing frightened,

So calm after awful jar.


So silent for shout and crying

At last in sepulchral pray,

That picture has changed the dying

Beginning the morrow day.


III


Last Goodbye


Shade of your hairs falls

On the wall behind you.

Oh, how many the walls

Our evenings knew.

Soon we'll have to go back

Everyone in their own,

Night is coloring black

Space of inky-blue dawn.

No one said the same words

That we whispered at last.

In each other's accords

Our love was so vast.

Beauty's all that I see

Heart is beating the same,

Beating unwillingly,

But not having an aim.

And in front of my eyes

Stay arisen recalls -

Of betrayed last goodbye

Unforgettable false.

Silence tightened the lips,

"Bye" I said, and that's all,

Turned away and bright weeps

Shined on background of wall.

IV


One pray


Somebody's in dreams of eternal

But I have just one thing I pray:

One second, one moment, life's owner,

Oh, give me, Lord, in present day.


I saw who've been thinking of morrow

But gone on a sudden at night,

One second, one moment, and sorrow

Is here, have come into sight.


Nobody can make the prediction

Of sure for hour ahead

One second's, one moment's conviction

Makes better than man for his sad.


And each one who thinks himself blindly

A master that's making his way -

One second, one moment will find him

And open his eyes for to pay.


Somebody's in dreams of eternal

But I have just one thing I pray:

One second, one moment, life's owner,

Oh, give me, Lord, in present day.