# Англ. перевод, Давид Самойлов, "Давай поедем в город"

Миша Ромм

Let"s travel to the town, Our old destination...

Перевод стихотворения


Let"s Travel to the Town

(by David Samoylov, 1920 - 1990)


Let"s travel to the town,

Our old destination.

The baggage of the years

Can wait at this train station.


The years are kept safeguarded,

But we are not to quiver.

We"ll feel a bit of sadness,

Yet lively in the shiver.


The fall is over ripened

With frost upon the apple.

Bird, cloud, and chimney smoke

Have no need to grapple.


The leaves have all but fallen,

First snow is almost here,

Both spacious and prodigious

The autumn"s hemisphere.


Like swallow"s saliva,

The glue of frost almighty.

It sealed together all that

Disordered and flighty.


November comes upon us,

Immense and incocated,

And, seemingly, the town

Is void, unpopulated,


There"s so much fresh air

With hideaways for crows,

That you don"t even notice

A human is so close.


Oh, how too late I took on

The "why" of my existence,

The ways and works of nature,

The cost of least resistance,


The weight of taming passions,

The power of emotion,

The bitter fruit of caution,

The bitter fruit of caution.


1963

(translated by Michael Romm, San Diego, USA, October 22-24, 2021)