Искусствоед
Antonio Machado
Weak rhymes that fall on verbs
and time-words, these are the strong ones.
Noun and adjective
are backwaters in the clear stream,
incidental to the verb
in the lyric grammar
of Today on the way to Tomorrow,
of Yesterday that is Still.
(from My Portfolio, verse VII. 1924)
trans. Alan S. Trueblood.
Weak rhymes that fall on verbs
and time-words, these are the strong ones.
Noun and adjective
are backwaters in the clear stream,
incidental to the verb
in the lyric grammar
of Today on the way to Tomorrow,
of Yesterday that is Still.
(from My Portfolio, verse VII. 1924)
trans. Alan S. Trueblood.