Robert Louis Stevenson (Роберт Льюис Стивенсон)

Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 2. Youth and Love. 1

ONCE only by the garden gate
Our lips we joined and parted.
I must fulfil an empty fate
And travel the uncharted.

Hail and farewell! I must arise,
Leave here the fatted cattle,
And paint on foreign lands and skies
My Odyssey of battle.

The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.

Come ill or well, the cross, the crown,
The rainbow or the thunder,
I fling my soul and body down
For God to plough them under.

1. Не взять мне в толк: переберу • I Know Not How, But As I Count
2. Реквием • Requiem
3. A Child's Garden of Verses. Envoys 3. To Auntie
4. Ad Martialem
5. A Valentine's Song

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