Emily Dickinson
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close (1732)
Две тайны овладели мной,
До смерти измождая.
От тайн бессмертия порой
Мой ум освобождая.
Избавив разум от оков,
Я все ж понять сумею
Суть трансцендентности миров
И про теодицею.
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My life closed twice before its close -
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me
So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.