- Язык:
Английский (English)
- Автор:
Эрл Д. Сэмпсон(Earl D. Sampson)
The Choice
The builder of towers will fall,
Terrible will be his headlong flight,
And, at the bottom of the cosmic well,
He will curse his own madness,
The destroyer will be crushed,
Toppled by fragments of slabs,
And, abandoned by the All-Seeing God,
He will cry out his pain.
And he who goes off into the caves of night
Or to the backwaters of a quiet river
Will meet the terrifying eyes
Of a ferocious panther.
You can’t escape the bloody lot
That Heaven has assigned to mortals.
But be still: it’s an incomparable right
To choose oneself one’s death.
Перевод стихотворения Николая Гумилёва «Выбор» на английский язык.