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Happy New Year! Excelsior by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

27/12/2021

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Wishing all our readers in the New Year to meet their dear family, friends and (re)connect with them on the best possible level, to reach even higher realms not only in your dreams, but in the real world (what ever it means to you), to be kind to each other, to be healthy and to stay free. I wish us all to look in the mirror and say: 'this is the best version of me, 20.22 that I am able to achieve with even better ones yet to come.

Excelsior
......................BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!

His brow was sad; his eye beneath,
Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,
And like a silver clarion rung
The accents of that unknown tongue,
Excelsior!

In happy homes he saw the light
Of household fires gleam warm and bright;
Above, the spectral glaciers shone,
And from his lips escaped a groan,
Excelsior!

"Try not the Pass!" the old man said;
"Dark lowers the tempest overhead,
The roaring torrent is deep and wide!"
And loud that clarion voice replied,
Excelsior!

"Oh stay," the maiden said, "and rest
Thy weary head upon this breast! "
A tear stood in his bright blue eye,
But still he answered, with a sigh,
Excelsior!

"Beware the pine-tree's withered branch!
Beware the awful avalanche!"
This was the peasant's last Good-night,
A voice replied, far up the height,
Excelsior!

At break of day, as heavenward
The pious monks of Saint Bernard
Uttered the oft-repeated prayer,
A voice cried through the startled air,
Excelsior!

A traveler, by the faithful hound,
Half-buried in the snow was found,
Still grasping in his hand of ice
That banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!

There in the twilight cold and gray,
Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay,
And from the sky, serene and far,
A voice fell like a falling star,
Excelsior!

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Тропой альпийской в снег и мрак
Шел юноша, державший стяг.
И стяг в ночи сиял, как днем,
И странный был девиз на нем:
Excelsior!

Был грустен взор его и строг,
Глаза сверкали, как клинок,
И, как серебряный гобой,
Звучал язык для всех чужой:
Excelsior!

Горели в окнах огоньки,
К. уюту звали очаги,
Но льды под небом видел он,
И вновь звучало,словно стон:
Excelsior!

«Куда? — в селе сказал старик.-
Там вихрь и стужа, там ледник,
Пред ним, широк, бежит поток».
Но был ответ, как звонкий рог:
Excelsior!

Сказала девушка: «Приди!
Усни, припав, к моей груди!»
В глазах был синий, влажный свет,
Но вздохом прозвучал ответ:
Excelsior!

«Не подходи к сухой сосне!
Страшись лавины в вышине!» --
Прощаясь, крикнул селянин.
Но был ответ ему один:
Excelsior!

На Сен-Бернардский перевал
Он в час заутрени попал,
И хор монахов смолк на миг,
Когда в их гимн ворвался крик:
Excelsior!

Но труп, навеки вмерзший в лед,
Нашла собака через год.
Рука сжимала стяг, застыв,
И тот же был на нем призыв:
Excelsior!

Меж ледяных бездушных скал
Прекрасный, мертвый он лежал,
А с неба, в мир камней и льда
Неслось, как падает звезда:
Excelsior!
...........................Перевод Вильгельма Левика
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