Филип Ларкин - Газонокосилка

Газонокосилка заглохла, дважды; наклонясь, я обнаружил
Ежика, застрявшего в ней против лезвий,
Убит. В траве высокой был он.

Я видел его прежде, и даже раз кормил.
Теперь жестоко обошелся я со скромным его миром.
Непоправимо. Не помогло и погребенье.

Следующим утром я проснулся, ёжик - нет.
Первый день после смерти, новое отсутствие
Всегда одинаково; нам стоит быть заботливей

Друг к другу, добросердечней быть
Покуда еще время есть у нас.

The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.

I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:

Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.

The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.

I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:

Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.


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