На звёзды глядя, дай ответ:
Ужель не стоит, в самом деле,
Рождение на этот свет
Всех шрамов на душе и теле?
Robert Frost. A Question
A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for birth.