Читать книгу The Demon / Демон. Книга для чтения на английском языке - Михаил Лермонтов, Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов, M. Y. Lermontov - Страница 11

The Demon did see… For one second

It seemed to him that heaven beckoned

To make his arid soul resound

With glorious, grace-bestowing sound —

And once again his thought embraced

The sacrosanct significance

Of Goodness, Beauty and of Love!

And, strangely moved, his memory traced

The joys that he had known above

A chain of long magnificence

Before him link on link unfolding

As though he watched the headlong flight

Of star on star shoot through the night…

And, long the touching scene beholding,

Held spell-bound by some Power unseen,

New sadness in his heart awoke.

Then, suddenly, emotion spoke

In accents once familiar;

Could this yet be regeneration?

The subtle promptings of temptation

Had gone as though they had not been…

Oblivion? – God gave this not yet: —

Nor would he, if he could, forget!..

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