Роберт Фрост - Ведь в песне смысл

Пока никто не мог помочь,
Дул ветер невпопад, в разброд.
Вовсю гремел и день и ночь,
Повсюду, где он только мог.

Явился человек и научил:
Не надо сильно и бесцельно дуть,
Ведь в песне смысл -
Смотри, как это должно быть!

Немного воздуха вдохнул,
И задержал его, пока
Весь его холод не пропал,
И, меру вымерив, подул.

Из меры вышли слово и мотив –
Тот ветра идеал, что и задуман был –
Из вдоха выдох оплодотворив.
И ветер понял: в песне смысл.

(с английского)


Robert Frost
The Aim Was Song

Before man came to blow it right
The wind once blew itself untaught,
And did its loudest day and night
In any rough place where it caught.

Man came to tell it what was wrong:
It hadn't found the place to blow;
It blew too hard - the aim was song.
And listen - how it ought to go!

He took a little in his mouth,
And held it long enough for north
To be converted into south,
And then by measure blew it forth.

By measure. It was word and note,
The wind the wind had meant to be -
A little through the lips and throat.
The aim was song - the wind could see.

Before man came to blow it right
The wind once blew itself untaught,
And did its loudest day and night
In any rough place where it caught.

Man came to tell it what was wrong:
It hadn't found the place to blow;
It blew too hard - the aim was song.
And listen - how it ought to go!

He took a little in his mouth,
And held it long enough for north
To be converted into south,
And then by measure blew it forth.

By measure. It was word and note,
The wind the wind had meant to be -
A little through the lips and throat.
The aim was song - the wind could see.