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O time, great Healer! canst thou still

The crying hearts that feel the knife?

O great Restorer, canst thou fill

The wide gaps broken out of life

By love and duty’s bitter strife?

O Friend, and canst thou, as they say,

Soothe all our troubles on thy breast,

Till, calm in death, they pass away,

And, one by one, are laid to rest

In unknown graves, beyond our quest?

Nay, there’s a wound thou canst not ease;

Nay, there’s a sickness past thine art.

Ah me! while I’m beyond the seas,

There’ll be a sore place in my heart

That, at a touch, will throb and smart.

Nay, nay, with all thy skill-with all

The care and cunning thou mayst spend,

Thou canst but weakly patch the wall

That wrench of parting came to rend,

That gap no mason’s hand can mend.

And as for buried sorrows-one

Hears every sound above its head;

Joys and prosperities may run

With happy footsteps o’er the dead,-

This grief of absence feels the tread.

O Time, thy graveyard is a street-

Thy graves no sculptured records crown;

Yet this one, trod of many feet,

Still shows the heap’d earth, fresh and brown,-

No foot of joy can press it down.

There velvet mosses soon will creep,

And grey and golden lichens grow;

There sweet white snowdrops soon will peep,

And purple violets bud and blow,

From winter’s bosom, cloak’d in snow;

There summer lights and shades will fall,

And soft rains patter through the trees;

There slender grasses, frail and tall,

Will weave and whisper in the breeze-

‘Twill be a grave in spite of these.

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• Наум Коржавин – Неужели птицы пели by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Нет! Так я просто не уйду во мглу by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Нелепые ваши затеи by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Не верь, что ты поэта шире by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Наверно, я не так на свете жил by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – На побывке by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – На друга-поэта by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Мой ритм заглох by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Мне без тебя так трудно жить by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Меня, как видно, Бог не звал by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Люди пашут каждый раз опять by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Ленинград by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Легкость by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Комиссары by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Кое-кому by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Как ты мне изменяла by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – К моему двадцатипятилетию by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Иван Калита by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Иль впрямь я разлюбил свою страну? by Поэзия На Русском
• Наум Коржавин – Грустная самопародия by Поэзия На Русском

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