The night light by Robert Frost

She always had to bum a light
Beside her attic bed at night
It gave bad dreams and broken sleep.
But helped the Lord her soul to keep
Good gloom on her was thrown away.
It is on me by night or day,
Who have, as I suppose, ahead
The darkest of it still to dread.

Ночник

Горит у девушки свеча
У изголовья по ночам.
В неверном свете тяжек сон,
Но Богу озаряя дом,
Он душу девы охранит
И гонит тьму с ее ланит.
Та тьма простёрлась надо мной,
Грозя неведомой бедой.


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