Henry Wadsworth LongfellowГенри Уодсворт Лонгфелло
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Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
8. Постарайся устанавливать в себе внутреннюю тишину и то совершенное молчание и уст и сердца, когда мы больше не заняты нашими несовершенными мыслями и тщеславными суждениями, но когда сам бог говорит в нас и мы в простоте сердца прислушиваемся к выражению его воли для того, чтобы, при молчании нашем, мы бы могли исполнить его одну волю.
8. Try to establish within yourself an inner stillness and that perfect silence of both lips and heart when we are no longer occupied with our imperfect thoughts and vain judgments, but when God himself speaks in us and we, in simplicity of heart, listen for the expression of his will, so that in our silence we may fulfill his will alone.
From The New-England Tragedies · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedEdith’s chant in Longfellow’s verse drama becomes counsel to the reader: “Let us, then, labor for an inward stillness” becomes “Try to establish within yourself an inner stillness,” “an inward healing” drops out, and “God alone speaks in us” becomes “God himself speaks in us.”
Longfellow’s own wordsLet us, then, labor for an inward stillness, — An inward stillness and an inward healing ; That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks in us, and we wait In singleness of heart, that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will, and do that only !
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. The New-England Tragedies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868), 'John Endicott', Act I, scene iii, p. 21, Edith's chant at the Quakers' meeting in Upsall's house.
The last nine lines of Edith's chant, a Quaker's words in Longfellow's verse drama, made prose and changed in three places. 'Let us, then, labor for an inward stillness' becomes 'Try to establish in yourself an inner stillness' (Постарайся устанавливать в себе внутреннюю тишину), so the speaker's 'us' becomes a counsel to the reader, though Tolstoy's 'we' returns in the next clause; 'an inward stillness and an inward healing' loses 'an inward healing'. 'Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions' becomes 'our imperfect thoughts and vainglorious judgments' (тщеславными суждениями). 'But God alone speaks in us' becomes 'but when God himself speaks in us' (сам бог), so 'alone' is lost. 'We wait in singleness of heart, that we may know His will' becomes 'we in simplicity of heart listen for the expression of His will'; 'and in the silence of our spirits, that we may do His will, and do that only' becomes 'so that, in our silence, we might fulfil His one will'. The chant's first four lines (we grope in the dark near the partition-wall of Life and Death) are left out. The lines circulated on their own under Longfellow's name, often as a prayer, so Tolstoy may have met them in an anthology; none was identified. No printable.