by
Lev L'vovich Kobylinsky (1889 - 1947), as Ellis
И дрогнули враги
Language: Russian (Русский) after the French (Français)
И дрогнули враги от дружного напора,
Средь окровавленных, истоптанных полей
Разнёсся грозный клич ликующих вождей,
И груды мёртвых тел, и шум последний спора...
Считая выбывших, как мёртвые листы,
Солдаты гневный взор печально устремляют
Туда, где сонм стрелков Фраата исчезает;
Горячий пот кропит их смуглые черты.
Осыпан стрелами и ранами покрытый
И жаркой кровью с ног до головы залитый,
Под рокот труб с челом надменным выезжает
Антоний на своём измученном коне...
Багровым заревом небесный свод пылает.
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And the foes trembled
Language: English after the Russian (Русский)
And the foes trembled under the collective push,
And through the bloody, stomped-out fields,
Was heard a terrible cry of the triumphant chieftains
And piles of dead bodies, and last snatches of an argument...
Counting those who perished, like dead leaves,
The soldiers mournfully direct their angry gaze there
Where a company of Phraates’ archers disappears;
Hot sweat smears their swarthy faces.
Marc Antony, pierced by arrows and covered by wounds,
Drenched in blood from head to toe,
Rides out arrogantly to the blare of trumpets,
Antony, on his exhausted stallion...
The firmament is ablaze in crimson red.
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