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Йейтс Уильям Батлер
«Стихи. (В переводах разных авторов)»

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had mixed a pale green light


With the ground-ivy's blue, he saw a stag


Whiter than curds, its eyes the tint of the sea.


Because it stood upon his path and seemed


More hands in height than any stag in the world


He sat with tightened rein and loosened mouth


Upon his trembling horse, then drove the spur;


But the stag stooped and ran at him, and passed,


Rending the horse's flank. King Eochaid reeled


Then drew his sword to hold its levelled point


Against the stag. When horn and steel were met


The horn resounded as though it had been silver,


A sweet, miraculous, terrifying sound.


Horn locked in sword, they tugged and struggled there


As though a stag and unicorn were met


In Africa on Mountain of the Moon,


Until at last the double horns, drawn backward,


Butted below the single and so pierced


The entrails of the horse. Dropping his sword


King Eochaid seized the horns in his strong hands


And stared into the sea-green eye, and so


Hither and thither to and fro they trod


Till all the place was beaten into mire.


The strong thigh and the agile thigh were met,


The hands that gathered up the might of the world,


And hoof and horn that had sucked in their speed


Amid the elaborate wilderness of the

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