That crazy hunter is alien to you
Who having climbed the naked cliff
In drunken happiness, in unaccountable anguish,
Lets go an arrow right at the sun.

И вам чужд тот безумный охотник,
кто взойдя на нагую скалу —
в пьяном счастье в тоске безотчетной
прямо в солнце пускает стрелу.

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