Текст песни Иосиф Бродский - Дидона и Эней

The great man looked out the window
and for her the whole world ended in the edge
his wide, Greek tunic,
an abundance of folds that looked like
frozen sea.
He
looked out the window, and his gaze now
was so far from these places that lips
frozen like a sink where
the rumble lurks, and the horizon in the glass
was motionless.
And her love
was just a fish - maybe capable
follow the ship into the sea
and, cutting the waves with a flexible body,
perhaps overtake him ... but he -
he mentally already stepped onto the land.
And the sea turned into a sea of ​​tears.
But, as you know, exactly in a minute
despair and starts to blow
favourable wind. And a great husband
left Carthage.
She stood
in front of the fire that was kindled
her soldiers under the city wall,
and saw how in his haze,
trembling between flame and smoke,
Carthage crumbled soundlessly

long before the prophecy of Cato.