Тормозной флешмоб 2
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Столько всего, о чем писать, и вообще нет времени! Компромисс с совестью - участие во флешмобе "прочел в ленте стихотворение - запостил стихотворение" (or words to this effect) от замечательной
sollersuk (кстати, если кто никогда не читал чудесного Огдена Нэша - не лишне будет сходить от нее дальше по ссылке к
prestonuk), да и в любом случае это практически краткий конспект того, о чем мне сейчас, спустившись со стены Адриана, больше всего хочется думать и писать.
WARNING! Для всех (и прежде всего самих соотечественников Киплинга, которые, кажется, очень часто его на дух не выносят за ура-патриотиические стихи и пр.) кроме страдающих англофилией в тяжелой форме seriously cringing moment coming on.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Puck's Song
See you the ferny ride that steals
Into the oak-woods far?
O that was whence they hewed the keels
That rolled to Trafalgar.
And mark you where the ivy clings
To Bayham's mouldering walls?
O there we cast the stout railings
That stand around St. Paul's
See you the dimpled track that runs
All hollow through the wheat?
O that was where they hauled the guns
That smote King Philip's fleet.
(Out of the Weald, the secret Weald,
Men sent in ancient years,
The horse-shoes red at Flodden Field,
The arrows at Poitiers!)
See you our little mill that clacks,
So busy by the brook?
She has ground her corn and paid her tax
Ever since Domesday Book.
See you our stilly woods of oak,
And the dread ditch beside?
O that was where the Saxons broke
On the day that Harold died.
See you the windy levels spread
About the gates of Rye?
O that was where the Northmen fled,
When Alfred's ships came by.
See you our pastures wide and lone,
Where the red oxen browse?
O there was a City thronged and known,
Ere London boasted a house.
And see you after rain, the trace
Of mound and ditch and wall?
O that was a Legion's camping-place,
When Caesar sailed from Gaul.
And see you marks that show and fade,
Like shadows on the Downs?
O they are the lines the Flint Men made,
To guard their wondrous towns.
Trackway and Camp and City lost,
Salt Marsh where now is corn--
Old Wars, old Peace, old Arts that cease,
And so was England born!
She is not any common Earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye,
Where you and I will fare!
Кстати, и сама книга, откуда стихотворение, - по-настоящему увлекательное пособие по британской истории :-)
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WARNING! Для всех (и прежде всего самих соотечественников Киплинга, которые, кажется, очень часто его на дух не выносят за ура-патриотиические стихи и пр.) кроме страдающих англофилией в тяжелой форме seriously cringing moment coming on.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Puck's Song
See you the ferny ride that steals
Into the oak-woods far?
O that was whence they hewed the keels
That rolled to Trafalgar.
And mark you where the ivy clings
To Bayham's mouldering walls?
O there we cast the stout railings
That stand around St. Paul's
See you the dimpled track that runs
All hollow through the wheat?
O that was where they hauled the guns
That smote King Philip's fleet.
(Out of the Weald, the secret Weald,
Men sent in ancient years,
The horse-shoes red at Flodden Field,
The arrows at Poitiers!)
See you our little mill that clacks,
So busy by the brook?
She has ground her corn and paid her tax
Ever since Domesday Book.
See you our stilly woods of oak,
And the dread ditch beside?
O that was where the Saxons broke
On the day that Harold died.
See you the windy levels spread
About the gates of Rye?
O that was where the Northmen fled,
When Alfred's ships came by.
See you our pastures wide and lone,
Where the red oxen browse?
O there was a City thronged and known,
Ere London boasted a house.
And see you after rain, the trace
Of mound and ditch and wall?
O that was a Legion's camping-place,
When Caesar sailed from Gaul.
And see you marks that show and fade,
Like shadows on the Downs?
O they are the lines the Flint Men made,
To guard their wondrous towns.
Trackway and Camp and City lost,
Salt Marsh where now is corn--
Old Wars, old Peace, old Arts that cease,
And so was England born!
She is not any common Earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye,
Where you and I will fare!
Кстати, и сама книга, откуда стихотворение, - по-настоящему увлекательное пособие по британской истории :-)
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Date: 2005-09-30 06:50 am (UTC)А любим мы все же, наверное, в первую очередь английскую литературу - и через нее уже Англию. Просто удивительно, когда вдруг оказываешься там и начинаешь все узнавать. Это как встретить удивительную цитату из незнакомого стихотворения в хорошей книге - а потом встретить это стихотворение само по себе. Что опять возвращает нас к теме узнавания, так что действительно (при всей моей нелюбви к философии), с этими отражениями реальностей любовь получается платонической во всех смыслах этого слова, как говорил один профессор (подозреваю, что Вы помните где) it's all in Plato, all in Plato, what do they teach them in these schools!