Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun by Emily Dicki
последний шанс та власть...
Хоть шар сей пуст - беречь тот шарм
ста грузам как балласт...
Обременён силок смекнуть,
зыбь люльки чует он,
усажен отпуститься в путь
тем зыбким волоском...
Всё судят "шар пустошный"
где, мнима, нить пока
мученьем неотвязным
прельщает седока.
(Эмили - о земной привязке души.)
[И Прист, по обыкновению, пальцем в небо, да не в то,
ну, финансист приземлённый, что возьмёшь...
David Preest:
A hollow tun or cask can be more safely held in the air
by the Hair of Risk, but tuns so heavy that they have
hundred weights to spare, when decoyed by the same delusive
hair, take the same risk but with disastrous consequences
( a variant reading for line 7 is ‘then mounts, to be to
atoms hurled’). Sensible ‘Critics’ can see that the Tun is
too slow-witted to ‘suspect the snare’ involved, but the Tun
does not listen. This poem could apply to the gambler
of any era or to the financial experts who were
‘to atoms hurled’ in 2008.]
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Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun by Emily Dickinson
Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun
Seductive in the Air --
That Tun is hollow -- but the Tun --
With Hundred Weights -- to spare --
Too ponderous to suspect the snare
Espies that fickle chair
And seats itself to be let go
By that perfidious Hair --
The "foolish Tun" the Critics say --
While that delusive Hair
Persuasive as Perdition,
Decoys its Traveller.
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