Люди! Ау!!!

[dashi_ell]

Помогите, люди добрые! Нет ли у кого "Я входил вместо дикого зверя в клетку" Бродского в английском переводе? Мне нужно прямо сейчас, а гугль не помогает.

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[avva.livejournal.com]

I, instead of a wild beast, entered the cage,
Burnt my own sentence's length and moniker with a nail in the barrack,
lived by the sea, played roulette,
dined with the devil knows who in a tail-coat.
From the heights of a glacier I surveyed half the globe,
thrice drowned, twice was ripped apart.
Abandoned the country that had nurtured me.
Those who've forgotten me could make up a city.
I mooched around the steppes which remembered the howls of the Hun,
wore what's again in fashion,
sowed rye, black-felted the barn,
and the only thing I didn't drink was dry water.
I let into my dreams the burnished steel pupil of my guard,
gobbled down the bread of exile, not leaving a crumb.
Permitted my vocal chords all sounds save wailing;
changed to a whisper. Now I'm forty.
What's there to say about life? That it turned out to be long.
Only with grief do I feel solidarity.
But whilst my mouth is not yet packed with clay,
It'll only resound with gratitude.

(translated by Chris Jones w/ the author).

[dashi-ell.livejournal.com]

Толик, огромное спасибо!

[avva.livejournal.com]

:)

[dashi-ell.livejournal.com]

Была неправа, гугль помог. :)