Леонид Дербенёв. Есть только миг

                Леонид Дербенёв - Leonid Derbenyov

                THE ONLY MOMENT IS *

                Everything is so inconstant in this mad world.
                There is the moment like the only light:
                The time between past and future: the only word:
                Catch this dear moment called so dear name – ‘life’!

                Let ancient pyramids, as still as a graveyard,
                Always be resting – they will never fly...
                But for a bright star – a hot-glaring, falling star,
                The only moment is: to shine – and die!

                Don’t stop, oh world! Don’t miss anything on your way!
                If MINE ends: when – where could it be gone on?..
                What can I lose, and what should not I miss today?
                Only the moment! – which has come and gone.

                Yes! If I shall have to meet the best or the worst –
                There is the moment like the only light:
                The time between past and future: the only word:
                Catch this dear moment called so dear name – ‘life’!

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*Песня из фильма «Земля Санникова». (Прим. В. Б.)