P. A. Florenskij, "The Friendship Star"


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The ecstasy of St Francis of Assisi
На мотив из Платона

Душа себя найти желает.
Томится по себе самой.
Тоскливо по себе вздыхает
и плачет в горести немой.

Дрожащий в тусклых очертаньях
пред ней витает мир идей,
и Эрос, – мощный чародей, –
Душой во сне или в мечтаньях

в какой-то миг овладевает.
Душа томится и рыдает.

И вот почудилось, что снова
Душа-близнец ей найдена.
Полёт в Эфир свершать готова
на белых крыльях не одна.

Но сон проходит, и тоскливо
она взирает вкруг, стеня.
И шепчет страстно-сиротливо:
«найди меня, найди меня...»

(1905)

*   *   *

On a motif from Plato
The ecstasy of St Bernard of Clairvaux

Desiring to find itself, the Soul
languishes by itself,
sighs wistfully by itself 
and cries in sorrow, silent.

Tremulous in dim outlines,
hovering below her world of ideas,
Eros, - a mighty magician, - 
and the Soul in dream. 

The Soul seizes, as in some instant, 
as it pines and weeps.

And here it seemed that once again
the Soul's twin found her
it takes flight in Ophir readily
on white wings, not alone. 

But the dream passes as well as its sad feeling,
she looks around quickly
and whispers passionately and lonely
"Find me, find me…"

(1905)

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