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Osip Mandelstam: Sisters heaviness and tenderness…

Osip Mandelstam

(1891-1938)

 

 

Сестры – тяжесть и нежность…

Сестры – тяжесть и нежность – одинаковы ваши приметы.

Медуницы и осы тяжелую розу сосут.

Человек умирает. Песок остывает согретый,

И вчерашнее солнце на черных носилках несут.

 

Ах, тяжелые соты и нежные сети,

Легче камень поднять, чем имя твое повторить!

У меня остается одна забота на свете:

Золотая забота, как времени бремя избыть.

 

Словно темную воду, я пью помутившийся воздух.

Время вспахано плугом, и роза землею была.

В медленном водовороте тяжелые нежные розы,

Розы тяжесть и нежность в двойные венки заплела!

 

 

Sisters heaviness and tenderness…

Sisters heaviness and tenderness, your traits are one.

Bees and wasps suck the heavy rose.

Man dies. The heated sand cools,

And a black stretcher bears away yesterday’s sun.

 

Ah, heavy honeycombs and tender seines,

One may sooner lift a stone than say your name!

For me a sole concern remains on earth:

A golden concern, to flee the burden of time.

 

I drink the clouded air like a dark stream.

Time’s tilled by a plow, and a rose was the earth.

In the slow whirlpool are heavy, tender roses,

Weaving heaviness and tenderness into twin wreaths.

1920


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