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Mar 14, 2007 11:00


Смысл подвига трехсот спартанцев еще обсуждается, хотя античная историография нимало не сомневалась в том, что это подвиг - и значит, это не специфически спартанский феномен. Это феномен воинского духа вообще, который одинаков везде и всегда - в Спарте или, например, в либеральной Англии.

У подвига Леонида был все-таки смысл, или, во всяком случае, ( Read more... )

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amagnum March 14 2007, 09:38:26 UTC
Три километра, три километра,
Три километра пути,
Вместе в Долину Смерти
Нам придется идти.
Копыта стучат по тверди,
Пушки маячат вдали,
Прямо в Долину Смерти
Шесть эскадронов вошли.

Сердце полно отваги -
Не повернем назад!
Юнион Джек на флаге -
Мчится вперед отряд,
Приказы не обсуждаем,
Вопросы не задаем,
Яростно наступаем,
Из карабинов бьем.
Флаг трепещит на жерди,
И трупы лежат в пыли;
Прямо в Долину Смерти
Шесть эскадронов вошли.

Пушки справа стреляют,
Пушки слева от нас,
Ядра враги метают
Всадникам прямо в глаз,
Пасть распахнули черти,
Там, на краю земли,
Прямо в челюсти Смерти
Шесть эскадронов вошли.

Копоть покроет флаги
И орденов эмаль,
Тонны кровавой влаги
Выпьют огонь и сталь,
Всадники наступают,
Устали рубить клинки,
Со всех сторон наседают
Русские казаки.
Живые - молитесь Богу,
Последний пришел рассвет,
Но сабли сломаться могут,
А шесть эскадронов - нет.

Пушки справа стреляют,
Пушки слева от нас,
Ядра враги метают
Всадникам прямо в глаз,
Лошадь и всадник пали -
Пули нашли мишень,
Но Слава прочнее Стали -
Нам не забыть тот день.
Пасть распахнули черти,
Там, на краю земли,
Прямо в челюсти Смерти
Шесть эскадронов вошли.

Кто больше достоин славы?
Прощальный гремит салют,
На поле у Балаклавы
Солдаты на бой идут,
И сплетням пустым не верьте,
Мы слез удержать не могли,
Когда в Долину Смерти
Шесть эскадронов вошли.

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antoin March 14 2007, 11:53:26 UTC
There were thirty million English who talked of England's might,
There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night.
They had neither food nor money, they had neither service nor trade;
They were only shiftless soldiers, the last of the Light Brigade.

They felt that life was fleeting; they knew not that art was long,
That though they were dying of famine, they lived in deathless song.
They asked for a little money to keep the wolf from the door;
And the thirty million English sent twenty pounds and four !

They laid their heads together that were scarred and lined and grey;
Keen were the Russian sabres, but want was keener than they;
And an old Troop-Sergeant muttered, "Let us go to the man who writes
The things on Balaclava the kiddies at school recites."

They went without bands or colours, a regiment ten-file strong,
To look for the Master-singer who had crowned them all in his song;
And, waiting his servant's order, by the garden gate they stayed,
A desolate little cluster, the last of the Light Brigade.

They strove to stand to attention, to straighen the toil-bowed back;
They drilled on an empty stomach, the loose-knit files fell slack;
With stooping of weary shoulders, in garments tattered and frayed,
They shambled into his presence, the last of the Light Brigade.

The old Troop-Sergeant was spokesman, and "Beggin' your pardon," he said,
"You wrote o' the Light Brigade, sir. Here's all that isn't dead.
An' it's all come true what you wrote, sir, regardin' the mouth of hell;
For we're all of us nigh to the workhouse, an' we thought we'd call an' tell.

"No, thank you, we don't want food, sir; but couldn't you take an' write
A sort of 'to be continued' and 'see next page' o' the fight?
We think that someone has blundered, an' couldn't you tell 'em how?
You wrote we were heroes once, sir. Please, write we are starving now."

The poor little army departed, limping and lean and forlorn.
And the heart of the Master-singer grew hot with "the scorn of scorn."
And he wrote for them wonderful verses that swept the land like flame,
Till the fatted souls of the English were scourged with the thing called Shame.

O thirty million English that babble of England's might,
Behold there are twenty heroes who lack their food to-night;
Our children's children are lisping to "honour the charge they made - "
And we leave to the streets and the workhouse the charge of the Light Brigade!

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