3. Morgenserenade

I forgot the word I wanted to say.
Blind swallow the hall of shadows return,
On the wings of the cut, with transparent play.
B delirious night singing songs.

I can not hear the birds. Everlasting does not bloom.
Transparent mane herd night.
B dry river canoe floats empty.
Among grasshoppers word unconscious.

Rising slowly, as if the tent il temple
Then suddenly it pretends to be mad Antigone,
That dead swallow rushes to the feet,
With Stygian tenderness and a green branch.

Oh, if only to return and sighted fingers shame
And convex joy of recognition.
I'm so scared sobs Aoide,
Mist, dings and gaping!

A mortal power is given to love and learn
For them, and the sound of the dust spilled,
But I forgot that I want to say -
And the thought disembodied shadows will come back to the hall.

Show all is not that transparent solid,
All swallow, girlfriend, Antigone ...
And on the lips, like black ice, lit
Stygian recollection ringing.

Osip Mandelstam