Увидел свинюшку, согнулся, как клюшка...
Ползком вперед, может кто подберет...
В обыденном - святая простота...
От носа и до кончика хвоста...
:)
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Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950). Spoon River Anthology. 1916.
Schroeder the Fisherman
I SAT on the bank above Bernadotte
And dropped crumbs in the water,
Just to see the minnows bump each other,
Until the strongest got the prize.
Or I went to my little pasture, 5
Where the peaceful swine were asleep in the wallow,
Or nosing each other lovingly,
And emptied a basket of yellow corn,
And watched them push and squeal and bite,
And trample each other to get the corn. 10
And I saw how Christian Dallman’s farm,
Of more than three thousand acres,
Swallowed the patch of Felix Schmidt,
As a bass will swallow a minnow.
And I say if there’s anything in man— 15
Spirit, or conscience, or breath of God
That makes him different from fishes or hogs,
I’d like to see it work!
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см. перевод Ю.Иванова
http://www.stihi.ru/2013/07/05/12