Факультет международных отношений МарГУ объявляет традиционный конкурс переводчиков. Окончательный срок подачи переводов 28 сентября 2010 до 19.00 Подведение итогов и награждение 30.09.2010 в 13.30 аудитория 327 корпус В, Красноармейская 71. Текст для перевода смотрите ниже.

1

Hour after hour the train moved, past a church

At one time, at another past the sea,

Then past a grey town, grimy in its smoke,

Then green trees of a forest, birch and oak,

            Then, on a platform, she:

A radiant stranger, unaware of me.

I thought:’Now why not get down from the train

And meet her?’ But I waited. Suddenly

Wheels moved. The train went by her. She

            Never came to my sight again.

2

The young bird-catcher loved apart,

And caught birds with a heavy heart.

Remote the object of his desire:

He loved the daughter of the squire.

It happened they met one day.

He tried to think of words to say,

Abashed at such a sudden meeting;

He swept his tall hat off in greeting.

The birds escaped, sang round her head.

But she rode off. No words were said.

3

Free playing of the mind is like the flight

Of a bat that flutters in a cave alone,

Sensing by instinct, without sense of sight,

How to avoid decisive walls of stone.

So the mind is free to range on bat-like wings,

Unhindered by the obstacles there,

It dips and soars in freedom, swoops and sings

In perfect courses by instinctive flair.

And is this simile perfection too?

The resemblance is false in one respect.

Bats do not change their confines, but minds do,

And caves are carved out by the intellect.

4

One day I found, in my house,

On the floor, a poisoned mouse,

Still alive. Its staring eye

Seemed to ask me: What have I

Done to deserve this agony

You would not do if you were me?