Стихи и проза

Iran oil tanker: Gibraltar orders release of Grace 1


От таких вестей вспоминается проза и поэзия страны, еще не ставшей безопасной гаванью постсоветских и прочих клептократов.

It was a melancholy and bitter incident, all the more unpalatable in that it ran so directly counter to the traditions of a great Service; one wonders what Sir Philip Sydney would have thought, or, in more modern times, Kennedy of the Rawalpindi or Fegen of the Jervis Bay.

Alistair MacLean, HMS Ulysses.

Ну и пророческое:

Far-called our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire:
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!

Rudyard Kipling, Recessional.


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