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The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope. Ray Bradbury
Читать онлайн.Название The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope
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isbn 9780007539918
Автор произведения Ray Bradbury
Жанр Ужасы и Мистика
Издательство HarperCollins
Only the bright beasts’ skins and restless bones bed here,
And lost the fire.
O, Phoenix, rub thy bones,
No more suspire!
Flint souls, strike mind against wild mind.
Return! Be born of spent desire.
Bright burn. Bright burn!
O mighty God’s voice, shorn,
Give shout next Easter morn. Be born!
(Our prayer calls you to life.)
Reborn of fire!
3
Abandon in Place.
So the sign says, so the words go.
The show is spent, the fire-walkers gone,
And gone the glow at dawn.
This day? No rockets rise like thunder.
The wonder still remains
In meadows where mound-dwellers not so long ago
Envied the birds, the untouched stars,
And let their touching envy grow.
Machineries stir here with falls of rust;
The lust for space still echoes
In the birds that circle lost in mourning cries
Repeating shouts of crowds long-spent
Whose aching shook the skies.
The sea moves down the shore
In wave on wave full-whispering,
No more. No more.
When will the harvesters return
To gather further wonders as a fuel
And let them burn?
How soon will all of Earth mob round, come here once more
To stop the night,
Put doubt away for good with rocket light?
O soon, O let that day be soon
When midnight blossoms with grand ships
As bright and high as noon.
Prepare the meadows, birds, and mounds,
Old ghosts of rocketmen, arise.
Fling up your ships, your souls, your flesh, your blood,
Your blinding dreams
To fill, refill, and fill again
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’s
Promised and re-promised
Skies.
(famous last words)
The famous one was there
Like a statue put out upon our loving green.
His wife was mean and talked a lot,
The air was hot with all her talking
Chalking out a line and running along
Her mindless song filled up our ears.
We looked at him. Our mouths were grim.
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