Death of the Bird

For every bird there is this last migration;

Once more the cooling year kindles her heart;

With a warm passage to the summer station

Love pricks the course in lights across the chart.

Year after year a speck on the map, divided

By a whole hemisphere, summons her to come;

Season after season, sure and safely guided,

Going away she is also coming home.

And being home, memory becomes a passion

With which she feeds her brood and straws her nest,

Aware of ghosts that haunt the heart’s possession

And exiled love mourning within the breast.

The sands are green with a mirage of valleys;

The palm tree casts a shadow not its own;

Down the long architrave of temple or palace

Blows a cool air from moorland scarps of stone.

And day by day the whisper of love grows stronger;

That delicate voice, more urgent with despair,

Custom and fear constraining her no longer,

Drives her at last on the waste leagues of air.

A vanishing speck in those inane dominions,

Single and frail, uncertain of her place,

Alone in the bright host of her companions,

Lost in the blue unfriendliness of space.

She feels it close now, the appointed season;

The invisible thread is broken as she flies;

Suddenly, without warning, without reason,

The guiding spark of instinct winks and dies.

Try as she will, the trackless world delivers

No way, the wilderness of light no sign;

Immense,complex contours of hills and rivers

Mock her small wisdom with their vast design.

The darkness rises from the eastern valleys,

And the winds buffet her with their hungry breath,

And the great earth, with neither grief nor malice,

Receives the tiny burden of her death.

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• Жан де Лафонтен – Садовод и Помещик by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Пьяница и Жена его by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Предостережение богов Симониду by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Павлин, жалующийся Юноне by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Осел со священной ношей by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Осел и Собака by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Орел и Сова by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Орел, Дикая Свинья и Кошка by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Обезьяна и Дельфин by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Мужчина средних лет и его две Возлюбленные by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Мельник, Сын его и Осел by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Львиный указ by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Лисица, Мухи и Еж by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Лисица и Аист by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Лев, сраженный Человеком by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Лес и Дровосек by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Ласочка в амбаре by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Кошка, превращенная в женщину by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Карман by Jean de La Fontaine
• Жан де Лафонтен – Городская и полевая Крысы by Jean de La Fontaine

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