Расчленение Красоты

From the corner of the divan(!)
                of Persian saddle-bags
on which he was lying,
                smoking,
                as was his custom,
                innumerable cigarettes,
Lord Henry Wotton
                could just catch
                the gleam
                of the honey-sweet
                and honey-coloured
blossoms of laburnum,
                whose tremulous branches
                seemed hardly able
to bear
       the burden
                of a beauty
                so flame-like
                as theirs, 
and now and then
                the fantastic shadows of birds in flight
                flitted
across the long tussore-silk curtains
                that were stretched in front of the huge window,
       producing a kind of momentary  Japanese effect,
 
and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters of Tokio, who
 ,
                through the medium of an art
that is necessarily immobile,

                seek to convey the the sense, of swiftness and motion.

saddle - cедло, сидалище

.....потом допишу, сори ..


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