"ANASHUYA" - читать интересную книгу автора (William Butler Yeats - 300+ Poems)

He ruffles with his bill the minnowed streams.
Ah! there he snaps my rice. I told you so.
Now cuff him off. He's off! A kiss for you,
Because you saved my rice. Have you no thanks?
i{Vijaya [sings]. Sing you} of i{her, O first few stars,}
i{Whom Brahma, touching with his finger, praises, for you}
i{hold}
i{The van} of i{wandering quiet; ere you be too calm and old,}
i{Sing, turning in your cars,}
i{Sing, till you raise your hands and sigh, and from your car-}
i{heads peer,}
i{With all your whirling hair, and drop many an azure tear.}
i{Anashuya.} What know the pilots of the stars of tears?
i{Vijaya.} Their faces are all worn, and in their eyes
Flashes the fire of sadness, for they see
The icicles that famish all the North,
Where men lie frozen in the glimmering snow;
And in the flaming forests cower the lion
And lioness, with all their whimpering cubs;
And, ever pacing on the verge of things,
The phantom, Beauty, in a mist of tears;
While we alone have round us woven woods,
And feel the softness of each other's hand,
Amrita, while -- -
i{Anashuya [going away from him].}
Ah me! you love another,
i{[Bursting into tears.]}
And may some sudden dreadful ill befall her!
i{Vijaya. I} loved another; now I love no other.
Among the mouldering of ancient woods
You live, and on the village border she,
With her old father the blind wood-cutter;
I saw her standing in her door but now.
i{Anashuya.} Vijaya, swear to love her never more.
i{Vijaya.} Ay, ay.
i{Anashuya.} Swear by the parents of the gods,
Dread oath, who dwell on sacred Himalay,
On the far Golden peak; enormous shapes,
Who still were old when the great sea was young;
On their vast faces mystery and dreams;
Their hair along the mountains rolled and filled
From year to year by the unnumbered nests
Of aweless birds, and round their stirless feet
The joyous flocks of deer and antelope,
Who never hear the unforgiving hound.
Swear!
i{Vijaya.} By the parents of the gods, I swear.
i{Anashuya [sings].} I i{have forgiven,} O i{new star!}
i{Maybe you have not heard} of i{us, you have come forth} so
i{newly,}