"Dunsany, Lord - Fifty-one Tales" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dunsany Lord)

"The Food of Death"
"The Lonely Idol"
"The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)"
"The Reward"
"The Trouble in Leafy Green Street"
"The Mist"
"Furrow-Maker"
"Lobster Salad"
"The Return of the Exiles"
"Nature and Time"
"The Song of the Blackbird"
"The Messengers"
"The Three Tall Sons"
"Compromise"
"What We Have Come To"
"The Tomb of Pan"






The Assignation




Fame singing in the highways, and trifling as she sang, with
sordid adventurers, passed the poet by.
And still the poet made for her little chaplets of song,
to deck her forehead in the courts of Time: and still she
wore instead the worthless garlands, that boisterous
citizens flung to her in the ways, made out of perishable
things.
And after a while whenever these garlands died the poet
came to her with his chaplets of song; and still she laughed
at him and wore the worthless wreaths, though they always
died at evening.
And one day in his bitterness the poet rebuked her, and
said to her: "Lovely Fame, even in the highways and the
byways you have not foreborne to laugh and shout and jest
with worthless men, and I have toiled for you and dreamed of
you and you mock me and pass me by."
And Fame turned her back on him and walked away, but in
departing she looked over her shoulder and smiled at him as
she had not smiled before, and, almost speaking in a
whisper, said:
"I will meet you in the graveyard at the back of the
Workhouse in a hundred years."