Iosif Brodsky's poem 'Christmas star' in processing AlRu
Mery Christmas, the Western World!
In East World it still has not come…
AlRu, P4 & Casio-keyboard
I'm just Russian Man
Lyrics
Interlinear English translation has turned out organic enough …
Lullaby for I.N.R.I.
(Christmas star)
During a cold time
In district,
Habitual more likely to a heat,
Than to a cold,
To a flat surface
More than to mountain,
The baby was born in a shed,
That the world to save…
It's drive
As soon as in the winter desert
The wind can drive the snow
All seemed to him huge -
Maria's breast and yellow pairs
From bullock's nostrils
And maguses -
Balthazar, Malheur, Gasper,
Gold, frankincense and smyrna
Dragged here,
And he was only a point
And a point was a star…
Attentively,
Not blinking,
Through occasional clouds,
From apart,
From depth of the Universe,
From its other end,
The star looked in a cave
At the only child
And it was a father's sight...
