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NIKOLA VAPTSAROV: LOVE SONG

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Nikola Vaptsarov

(1909-1942)


Love Song

Like a concrete ceiling above us
the murderous threat grinds down again.
Dismay and frigtening tumult hold us,
within our souls we murmured “War!”

I see  tumult everywhere:
in every factory stack and flue,
I see it in the sunset
and in the sky so calm and blue.

When one’s encircled and shut in
as we are now on every side,
is it really such a sin
a little spot for love to hide?

 Is it a sin – I wish you would say –
that even when the workshop
is rented by angry bullet spray
I’ve time to think, I love her still?

 Yes, our little world of love
is very small, that is true,
that’s why with eyes fixed straight ahead
I sing so short a song for you.

 

ЛЮБОВНА

Като бетонен блок над нас
тежи барутната тревога.
Душите ни ръмжат: – Война!
В душите кръв, и смут и огън.

Аз виждам тоя смут дори
сега в фабричните комини,
на запад в залеза или
в небето тъй спокойно синьо.

И в тези дни, кажи ми ти,
когато ни притягат в обръч,
в сърцето, грях ли е, кажи,
че пазя още кът за обич?

Кажи ми грях ли е, че пак,
дори и в този шум фабричен,
процепен с зъл картечен грак,
си мисля: – Колко я обичам!…

Да, вярно, мъничкият свет
на нашата любов е тесен,
затуй със поглед, впит напред,
ти пиша толкоз малка песен.

 

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