Текст песни Иосиф Бродский - Камни на земле

Stones on the Ground (1958)

Book: Joseph Brodsky. Poems and poems

These verses are about how stones lie on the ground,
simple stones, half of which do not see the sun,
simple gray stones,
simple stones - stones without epitaphs.

The stones that take our tread
white under the sun and stones at night
like the big eyes of a fish,
the stones that grind our steps -
eternal millstones of eternal bread.

The stones that take our step
like black water - gray stones,
stones that adorn the neck of a suicide,
precious stones polished by prudence.

The stones on which they will write: "freedom".
The stones that will one day pave the road.
The stones from which the prisons will be built
or stones that remain motionless,
like stones without associations.

So
stones lie on the ground,
simple stones resembling the back of the head,
simple stones - stones without epitaphs.

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