Уж сколько их упало в эту бездну,
разверстую вдали!
Настанет день, когда и я исчезну
с поверхности Земли.

Застынет все, что пело и боролось,
сияло и рвалось:
и зелень глаз моих, и нежный голос,
и золото волос.

И будет жизнь с ее насущным хлебом,
с забывчивостью дня.
И будет все – как будто бы под небом
и не было меня!

Изменчивой, как дети в каждой мине,
и так недолго злой,
любившей час, когда дрова в камине
становятся золой,

виолончель, и кавалькаду в чаще,
и колокол в селе…
Меня, такой живой и настоящей,
на ласковой земле!

К вам всем – что мне, ни в чем не знавшей меры,
чужие и свои?! –
я обращаюсь с требованьем веры
и с просьбой о любви.

И день, и ночь, и письменно, и устно:
за правду да и нет,
за то, что мне так часто – слишком грустно
и только двадцать лет.

За то, что мне прямая неизбежность –
прощение обид,
за всю мою безудержную нежность
и слишком гордый вид.

За быстроту стремительных событий,
за правду, за игру…
Послушайте! – еще меня любите
за то, что я умру.


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    The many fallen ones into the deepest, Insatiable abyss! One of these days I’ll also vanish, guiltless, From earthly living bliss.

    And all things then shall stall – the song and struggle That shone from me and tore The greenest eyes, the tender voice shall crumble; The golden hair I wore.

    But life will carry on as nothing happened (Its daily cares and needs) Oblivious of me who under heaven A life once lived and breathed!

    So playful that I was in childish whimsy And none too long was cross; I that so loved of even hearth when, flimsy, The wood would turn to floss

    The cello and the horseback ride in forest The tolling bell loved I … Alive and real, with all my soul put foremost – Good earth, why should I die!

    To you I speak now, strange or friendly people – I never tempered was – And I demand of you some faith in keeping But love of you I ask

    Both day and night, in writing or in speaking: Do love my gritty truth; Do love me for my sadness often creeping; For twenty years of youth

    For that I never had a qualm, forgiving Offences or ill use; For all my boundless tenderness in living And haughtiness in looks

    For action swift and fell, for dashing valour For truth, for play … oh my! And listen! One more thing: do love me ever For that I’ll have to die

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