Читать книгу The Demon / Демон. Книга для чтения на английском языке - Михаил Лермонтов, Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов, M. Y. Lermontov - Страница 3

His way above the sinful earth

The melancholy Demon winged

And memories of happier days

About his exiled spirit thronged;

Of days when in the halls of light

He shone among the angels bright;

When comets in their headlong flight

Would joy to pay respect to him

As, chaste among the cherubim,

Among th' eternal nebulae

With eager mind and quick surmise

He'd trace their caravanserai

Through the far spaces of the skies;

When he had known both faith and love,

The happy firstling of creation!

When neither doubt nor dark damnation

Had whelmed him with the bitterness

Of fruitless exile year by year,

And when so much, so much… but this

Was more than memory could bear.