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Thomas Lovell Beddoes
1803 -1849
(Томас Ловел Беддоуз)
Что происходит
Leonigild’s supprehension
(from Love’s Arrow poisoned)
What’s going on in my heart and in my brain,
My blood, my life, all over me, all through me?
It cannot last! Quickly I shall not be
What I am now. – Oh I am changing, changing,
Dreadfully changing. – Aye, even as I stand
A transformation will come over me,
I am unsouled, dishumanised, and now
My passions swell and grow like brutes conceived;
My feet will soon be fixed – and every limb
Be swollen, distorted, till I am become
A wild old mountain, forest over-grown,
And have a dreadful tempest for a voice;
Aye, the abhorred conscience of this murder,
It will grow up a Lion, all alone,
A mighty-maned, grave-mouthed prodigy,
And live within my caves; - the other passions,
Some will be snakes, and bears, and savage wolves –
And when I lie tremendous in the desart
Or abandoned sea, murderers and idiot men
Will come to live upon my ragged sides,
Die and be buried in me. – Now it comes,
I break and magnify. – Heaven pours down sleet
And snow and hail, and hell rains up its fire.
© 2000 Elena and
Yacov Feldman