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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, С ІЧЕНЬ 2018 WWW. UNWLA .ORG 11 Р y дьярд Кіплінґ – Синові (в перекладі Василя Стуса) К оли ти бережеш залізний спокій всупір загальній паніці й клятьбі, коли наперекір хулі жорстокій між невірів ти віриш сам собі. Коли ти вмієш ждати без утоми, обмовлений, не станеш брехуном, ошуканий, не піддаєшся злому і власним не хизуєшся добром. Коли те бе не порабують мрії, в кормигу дум твій дух себе не дасть, коли ти знаєш, що за лицедії — облуда щастя й машкара нещасть. Коли ти годен правди пильнувати, з якої вже зискують махлярі, розбитий витвір знову доробляти, хоча начиння геть уже старі. Коли ти м ожеш всі свої надбання поставити на кін, аби за мить проциндрити без жалю й дорікання — адже тебе поразка не страшить. Коли змертвілі нерви, думи, тіло ти можеш знову кидати у бій, коли триматися немає сили і тільки воля владно каже: стій! Коли в юрбі шлях етності не губиш, а бувши з королями — простоти, коли ні враг, ні друг, котрого любиш, нічим тобі не можуть дорікти. Коли ти знаєш ціну щохвилини, коли від неї геть усе береш, тоді я певен: ти єси людина і землю всю своєю назовеш . If you can keep your hea d when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream, and not ma ke dreams your master; If you can think, and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same: If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ‘em up with worn - out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch - and - toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!” If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son! Vasyl Stus, who was born on January 8, 1938, in the Vynnytsia oblast of Ukraine, was a diss ident poet, a Ukrainian patriot whose protests against the Soviets came at a great price — expulsion from the university, his subsequent arrest (1972), a five - year sentence at a strict - regime labor camp, and three years of exile. It was during his years in e xile that Stus became a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, a decision that the Soviet regime responded to with additional punitive measure. Stus was rearrested in 1980 and sen- tenced to ten years of incarceration in a strict - regime labor camp to be fol lowed by five years of exile. Vasyl Stus died on September 4, 1985. He was buried in Kyiv on November 19, 1989, honored by a procession of 30,000 mourners. Vasyl Stus’s poetry survive s as a testament to the indomitable spirit of those who refuse to submit to tyrants and tyranny. I always prefer to believe the best of everybody ; it saves so much trouble. – Rudyard Kipling
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