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mr_stapleton ([personal profile] mr_stapleton) wrote2009-05-07 09:05 am
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Филип Ларкин. Вода







Когда б меня призвали
Религию создать,
Я взял бы в помощь воду.

Для входа в церковь
Пришлось бы вброд переходить
К другим, сухим одеждам;

И литания содержала бы
Картины увлажнений,
Благочестивых ярых промоканий,

А на востоке я б воздвиг
Стакан воды,
Где, отовсюду падая, лучи
Могли бы бесконечно собираться.



Philip Larkin. Water

If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of a water.

Going to church
Would entail a fording
To dry, different clothes;

My litany would employ
Images of sousing,
A furious devout drench,

And I should raise in the east
A glass of water
Where any-angled light
Would congregate endlessly.

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