The Sea said Come to the Brook by Emily Dickinson

Речь Морю: - Приходи, Ручей.
В ответ: - Позволь взрасти...
Оно: - С тем глубью стать морей,
в ручье нужда,- приди!

Сказала глубь: - Иду к морям...
Где глас: - Я твой исход,
столь чтим...
- Твоя мудрёность вод
застойна для меня...



(Эмили - к Хиггинсону.)
[David Preest:
Emily perhaps has in mind herself as the Brook and Thomas
Higginson as the Sea. In the first stanza Higginson invites
Emily to write poetry on his model. She asks to be allowed
to grow in her own way. He promises her that she will become
a Sea or a great poet herself. He wants a Brook as a pupil
and so she should come now. The second stanza refers to a
later time. Emily has now become a Sea herself or a great
poet according to her own fashion, and can tell her teacher
to go as she has no use for him now. He protests that she
cherished him once and asked his advice. She says that the
wisdom of his learned waters is now a stale thing for her.]

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The Sea said "Come" to the Brook -- by Emily Dickinson

The Sea said "Come" to the Brook --    
The Brook said "Let me grow" --         
The Sea said "Then you will be a Sea --
I want a Brook -- Come now"!            

The Sea said "Go" to the Sea --         
The Sea said "I am he               
You cherished" -- "Learned Waters --   
Wisdom is stale -- to Me"