V. STOLBOV: "I Think, In One Night..."

"I Think, In One Night..."

(From Juan Ramon Jimenez)
I think, in one night of dreamed thoughts,
The mighty creator of stars,
Recalling the tune, he’d forgot,
Would touch strings of ages, just once, –
And our lips will be blazed with the waves
Of words sought for centuries by us. 


Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, December, 2002