- Язык:
Английский (English)
- Автор:
Леонид Страховский(Leonid Strakhovsky)
- The Slavonic and East European Review, Volume twenty-two, October, 1944
Second Canzone
Thy temple, Lord, is in the heavens,
But earth is also Thy abode.
The linden trees bloom in the forests.
And birds upon them sing Thy glory.
Like the ringing of church bells, spring
Comes over gay and emerald fields;
And in the spring on wings of dreams
The angels fly to comfort us.
If that is so, oh! Lord, I pray.
If I sing rightly Thine own song,
I pray, oh! Lord, give me a sign,
That I Thy will have understood.
Then before her, who now is sad.
Appear, oh! Lord, like Light Unseen,
And to all questions she will ask
Give her a dazzling reply.
Because more pleasant than birds’ songs,
More glorious than the angel’s trumpet,
To us are smiles of loved lips,
And fleeting tremblings of eyelashes.
Перевод стихотворения Николая Гумилёва «Канцона» на английский язык.