Любимые герои
BARRY CORNWALL
Последний литературный собеседник Пушкина.
21 ноября день рождения Барри.
In Memory of Barry Cornwall.
(From England’s youngest to her oldest singer).
In the garden of Death, where the singers whose names are deathless
One with another make music unheard of men,
Where the dead sweet roses fade not on lips long breathless,
And the fair eyes shine that shall weep not or change again,
Who comes now crowned with the blossom of snow-white years?
What music is this that the world of the dead men hears?
Beloved of men, whose words on our lips were honey,
Whose name in our ears and our fathers’ ears was sweet,
Like summer gone forth of the land his songs made sunny,
To the beautiful veiled bright world where the glad ghosts meet,
Child with father, and bridegroom with bride, and anguish with rest,
No soul shall pass of a singer than this more blest.
Барри Корнуолл. Литературные воспоминания.
