"Osip Mandelstam. Tristia (tranlsation by Ilya Shambat) (англ.)" - читать интересную книгу автора

Finest of all and basking in delight.


5.
This building will outlast people and ages
So wise and spherical and nobly built
And incandescent weeping of the angels
Will not corrode away the darkened gilt.



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1.
Where Roman magistrate judges the foreign man
Basilica stands joyful and the first;
Like Adam once, spreading his nerves to heaven,
A light and cross-shaped bridge with muscles bursts.


2.
But will reveal itself the hidden plan!
Here might of granite arches took good care
That loaded massive walls were good to stand
And ram-like daring overpass stood bare.


3.
A desert labyrinth, uncharted forest,
A mindful chasm across the gothic soul,
Egyptian might and Christian modesty
Oak and kingdom to adorn the hall.


4.
But what is more important, Notre Dame,
Your monstrous ribs I studied to impart
And oft I thought: from harshness and from blame

Someday I will also make fine art.



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"How luxury of these silverware and lace
Is loathsome to me in my disgrace
In the stone Tresene
A famous sorrow will be