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

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And whispering that none but he should hear,


Said: 'If a woman has put this on you,


My men, whether it please her or displease,


And though they have to cross the Loughlan waters


And take her in the middle of armed men,


Shall make her look upon her handiwork,


That she may quench the rick she has fired; and though


She may have worn silk clothes, or worn a crown,


She'll not be proud, knowing within her heart


That our sufficient portion of the world


Is that we give, although it be brief giving,


Happiness to children and to men.


Then he, driven by his thought beyond his thought,


And speaking what he would not though he would,


Sighed: 'You, even you yourself, could work the cure!


And at those words I rose and I went out


And for nine days he had food from other hands,


And for nine days my mind went whirling round


The one disastrous zodiac, muttering


That the immedicable mound's beyond


Our questioning, beyond our pity even.


But when nine days had gone I stood again


Before his chair and bending down my head


Told him, that when Orion rose, and all


The women of his household were asleep,


To go-for hope would give his limbs the power-


To an old empty woodman's house that's

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