Уильям Генри Дэвис
"Dolce far niente"
Что за жизнь, хоть и полным-полна забот,
Если дух перевести нам не дает?
Ни минуты, отдохнуть у деревца
Беспечально, как корова иль овца;
Ни минуты, рассмотреть в траве лесной,
Как запас орехов белки прячут свой;
Ни минуты, днем в сверканиях речных
Увидать потоки звезд с небес ночных;
Ни минуты, на красавицу взглянуть,
Как она свой вытанцовывает путь;
Ни минуты, ждать, когда слетит для нас
С уст улыбка драгоценным даром глаз?..
Жизнь пуста, хоть и полным-полна забот,
Если дух перевести нам не дает.
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William Henry Davis
"Leisure"
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stand as long as the sheep or cows
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Steams full of stars, like skies at night?
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance?
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
William Henry Davis
© Copyright: Адада, 2003
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Seeing Eye To Eye Is Believing
When speaking of people and their beliefs I wear my belief on my sleeve;
I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.
When people reject a truth or an untruth it is not because it is a truth or an untruth that they reject it,
No, if it isn’t in accord with their beliefs in the first place they simply say, “Nothing doing,” and refuse to inspect it.
Likewise when they embrace a truth or an untruth it is not for either its truth or its mendacity,
But simply because they have believed it all along and therefore regard the embrace as a tribute to their own fair-mindedness and sagacity.
These are enlightened days in which you can get hot water and cold water out of the same spigot,
And everybody has something about which they are proud to be broad-minded but they also have other things about which you would be wasting your breath if you tried to convince them that they were a bigot.
And I have no desire to get ugly,
But I cannot help mentioning that the door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
Naturally I am not pointing a finger at me,
But I must admit that I find any speaker far more convincing when I agree with him than when I disagree.
Михаил Лукашевич 02.12.2003 19:38 • Заявить о нарушении
Seeing Eye To Eye Is Believing
When speaking of people and their beliefs I wear my belief on my sleeve;
I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.
When people reject a truth or an untruth it is not because it is a truth or an untruth that they reject it,
No, if it isn’t in accord with their beliefs in the first place they simply say, “Nothing doing,” and refuse to inspect it.
Likewise when they embrace a truth or an untruth it is not for either its truth or its mendacity,
But simply because they have believed it all along and therefore regard the embrace as a tribute to their own fair-mindedness and sagacity.
These are enlightened days in which you can get hot water and cold water out of the same spigot,
And everybody has something about which they are proud to be broad-minded but they also have other things about which you would be wasting your breath if you tried to convince them that they were a bigot.
And I have no desire to get ugly,
But I cannot help mentioning that the door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
Naturally I am not pointing a finger at me,
But I must admit that I find any speaker far more convincing when I agree with him than when I disagree.
Михаил Лукашевич 02.12.2003 19:38 • Заявить о нарушении