English Poetry. Rudyard Kipling. «Debits and Credits». (1919-1926). 18. The Last Ode. Редьярд Киплинг.

Rudyard Kipling (Редьярд Киплинг)

«Debits and Credits». (1919-1926). 18. The Last Ode

          Nov. 27, 8 B.C.
       Horace, BK. V. Ode 31
         "The Eye of Allah"

As WATCHERS couched beneath a Bantine oak,
  Hearing the dawn-wind stir,
Know that the present strength of night is broke
  Though no dawn threaten her
Till dawn's appointed hour--so Virgil died,
  Aware of change at hand, and prophesied

Change upon all the Eternal Gods had made
  And on the Gods alike--
Fated as dawn but, as the dawn, delayed
  Till the just hour should strike--

A Star new-risen above the living and dead;
  And the lost shades that were our loves restored
As lovers, and for ever. So he said;
  Having received the word...

Maecenas waits me on the Esquiline:
  Thither to-night go I...
And shall this dawn restore us, Virgil mine
  To dawn? Beneath what sky?

Rudyard Kipling’s other poems:

1. Последние из Лёгкой бригады • The Last of the Light Brigade
2. Стихи о спортивных играх для «Альманаха двенадцати видов спорта» У. Ни-кольсона, 1898 г. • Verses on Games. To “An Almanack of Twelve Sports” by W. Nicholson, 1898
3. «Limits and Renewals». 1932. 10. Akbar’s Bridge
4. «Limits and Renewals». 1932. 19. Azrael’s Count
5. The Declaration of London

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