До Дня народження Тараса Шевченка

До Дня народження Тараса Шевченка

Taras Shevchenko, The Mighty Dnieper

The wind in anger howls and raves,
Down to the ground it bends the willows,
And mountain-high lifts up the waves.
The pale-faced moon picked out this moment
To peek out from behind a cloud,
Like a canoe upon the ocean
It first tips up, and then dips down.
The cocks don't crow to wake the morning,
There's not as yet a sound of man,
The owls in glades call out their warnings,
And ash trees creak and creak again.

Translated by John Weir, Toronto
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