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January 14th, 2018

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Илья Сельвинский - Сонет (Обычным утром...) / A sonnet by Ilya Selvinsky

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Илья Сельвинский - Сонет (Обычным утром...)


             В. Усову

Обычным утром в январе,
Когда синё от снежной пыли,
Мне ящерицу в янтаре
На стол рабочий положили.

Завязнувши в медовом иле,
Она плыла как бы в жаре,
И о таинственной заре
Ее чешуйки говорили.

Ей сорок миллионов лет,
За ней пожары и сполохи!
О, если б из моей эпохи

Прорвался этот мой сонет
И в солнечном явился свете,
Как ящерица, сквозь столетье!

1963

Ilya Selvinsky--A Sonnet (On a regular morning...)

To V. Usov

On a regular morning in January,
When everything's blue from snow-dust,
A lizard encased in amber was placed on my desk.

Having gotten bogged down in the honeyed ooze,
It was swimming as if in the heat,
And its scales spoke of
A mysterious dawn.

It is forty million years old,
There are fires and flashes of light behind it!
Oh, if only, from my era

This sonnet of mine would burst out
And appear in the sunlight
Just like this lizard, a hundred years later!

1963
~~~
(more than 50 years, now...;))