"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats

Prevoditelj: Ivan Stamenković Recezent: Sanda L

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats

"Drugi dolazak" Williama Butlera Yeatsa

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

U kružnicama kružeći sve širim

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Ne čuje više soko poziv sokolara;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Stvari se raspadaju; središte ne drži;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

Anarhija se razuzdala svijetom,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

Diže se plima zamućena krvlju

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

I obred nevinosti posvuda se gasi;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Najboljima manjka svako uvjerenje,

Najgori su puni intenzivne strasti.

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Jamačno, otkrivenje nam se bliži;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

Jamačno, Drugi Dolazak se bliži.

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

Drugi Dolazak! Tek izrekoh riječi,

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Kad golema mi slika iz Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert

Zabliješti zjene: u pustinjskom pijesku

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

Lavovsko tijelo ljudske glave pilji

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Pogledom praznim, okrutnim ko sunce,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

I valja spora bedra, dok se oko njega

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

Razlijeću s grozom sjene ptica pustinjskih.

The darkness drops again; but now I know

Opet se spušta mrak: al sada znadem

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Dvadeset stoljeća se kamenoga sna

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

Budi u zipci, što ih je odnjihala da vide moru.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

I kakva surova zvijer, Kad konačno joj kucnuo je čas,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Sad puže prema Betlehemu da se rodi?

Izvorni prijevod: Antun Šoljan