We talked with each other about each other by Emil

О нас вели мы толк друг с другом,
хоть каждый и молчал,
внимав бегам секунд по кругу
под стрелок шаг, что мчал...
Пред онеменьем лиц помедлив,
сжалилась пора,
Ковчега льгот открыла недра
взявшим Арарат...





[David Preest:
It is just possible that he ‘We’ in this incident
are Emily and Judge Lord. They sit silently, looking
expressively at each other, listening with white
faces to the time they have left galloping and racing
away. But then some how Time takes compassion on them
(maybe the only train to Salem from Amherst that day
is cancelled), and they gratefully accept the
‘arks of reprieve’ on the mountains of Ararat
(Genesis8:4) which Time offers them.]

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We talked with each other about each other by Emily Dickinson

We talked with each other about each other    
Though neither of us spoke --               
We were listening to the seconds' Races       
And the Hoofs of the Clock --               
Pausing in Front of our Palsied Faces         
Time compassion took --               
Arks of Reprieve he offered to us --          
Ararats -- we took --