Carl Sandburg «Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind»
Стихитворение Карла Сэндберга, американского поэта, историка, романиста и фольклориста, лауреата Пулитцеровской премии «Четыре прелюдии, разыгранные ветром» на английском и русском языках. Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind The past is a bucket of ashes. 1 The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time and does her hair the way she wants it and fastens at last the last braid and coil and puts the hairpin where it belongs and turns and drawls: Well, what of it? My grandmother, Yesterday, is gone. What of it? Let the dead be dead. 2 The doors … Читать далее →