Ne odlazi tiho u tu blagu noć,
Gori i bunca starost na kraju dana.
Žesti se, besni, dok svetlost se gasi!
Iako mudri shvate: tama je pravedna,
Jer rečima munju nisu razgranali, ipak –
Ne odlaze tiho u tu blagu noć.
Dobri poslednjim nariču drhtajem
Nad krhkim delima u zelenoj uvali:
Žeste, besne, dok svetlost se gasi.
Divljaci sunce love, opevaju mu let.
Kad kasno saznaju da su ga ražalostili,
Ne odlaze tiho u tu blagu noć.
Trezveni pred smrt, sumračnim pogledom
Vide: i slepčeve oči gore i raduju se,
Pa se žeste, besne, dok svetlost se gasi.
A ti moj oče, u tužnim visinama gore:
Kuni me, blagoslovi, tim gorkim suzama!
Ne odlazi tiho u tu blagu noć!
Žesti se, besni, dok svetlost se gasi!
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieve it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Kao dopunu Dilenovoj pesmi postavljam i ovaj snimak, čitanje uz pratnju klavira. Autor muzike je australijski kantautor Luis Tilet. Pesma je nastala povodom sepila umetnikovog oca. Nasuprot tami, simboličnoj smrti, svetlost afirmiše život, predočava postojanje Boga, beskraja, savšenstva, jedinstva i lepote. Sličnu pesmu napisao je i D. H. Lorens, ona se zove „Lađa smrti“ i takođe je objavljena na blogu A . A . A.
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Dilen Tomas, „Ne odlazi tiho u tu blagu noć“, prevod: Srba Mitrović
Izvor: „Antologija engleske poezije 1945-1990“, Svetovi, Novi Sad, 1992.
Preporuka: BBC
