Вне дома - некие да я...
Лишь эмигранту жить,
где родин скопище, легко...
Наверно... может быть...
Мы к небу, чуждому для нас,
привычкой не легки -
как к детям, памятней лицом,
чем дальше их шаги.
[David Preest:
Thomas Johnson suggests that ‘the poem
may have been inspired in a moment of
longing for home, shortly after Emily
arrived in Cambridge, a district of Boston,
in late April 1864 for eye treatment.’
She seems to say: ‘Other people as well as
myself are away from home. To some it may
seem easy to be an emigrant in a ‘Metropolis
of Homes’ like Boston. But for me it is as
difficult to get used to it, as it is for
parents to get used to their children whose
feet have taken them away from home while
their faces remain in the memory.’]
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Away from Home are some and I -- by Emily Dickinson
Away from Home are some and I --
An Emigrant to be
In a Metropolis of Homes
Is easy, possibly --
The Habit of a Foreign Sky
We -- difficult -- acquire
As Children, who remain in Face
The more their Feet retire.