Richard F. BurtonРичард Ф. Бёртон
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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. «Не разъедай своего сердца, — говорят мудрецы, — не оплакивай прошлого, похороненного прошлого». Делай то, что должно, и, как звезда, не отдыхай и не спеши.
8. “Do not eat away your heart,” say the sages, “do not mourn the past, the buried past.” Do what ought to be done, and, like a star, neither rest nor hurry.
Hadji Abdul Gezdi [Richard F. Burton].
From The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changed“Do what thou dost” becomes “Do what ought to be done,” which makes it a matter of duty, and “be strong, be brave” is left out.
Hadji Abdul Gezdi’s own words“Eat not thy heart,’ the Sages said; “nor mourn the Past, the buried Past ;” Do what thou dost, be strong, be brave; and, like the Star, nor rest nor haste.
Source text: archive.orgThe Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû el-Yezdî… when Richard Burton could secure any privacy, he composed …
… which was one of his Eastern noms-de-plume.
Do what thou dost, be strong, be brave ; and, like the Star, nor rest nor haste.
Source text: archive.orgDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1880), p. 17 of the first edition (Part IX in later printings).
Burton's couplets, not faithful: 'Eat not thy heart, the Sages said; nor mourn the Past, the buried Past; Do what thou dost, be strong, be brave; and, like the Star, nor rest nor haste.' Tolstoy makes 'said' «говорят» (say), turns 'Do what thou dost' into «Делай то, что должно» (do what you ought), and leaves out 'be strong, be brave'. Burton's line bids a man put himself into whatever he does; Tolstoy's makes it duty. So no printable text. The Kasîdah is Burton's own poem, published in 1880 as a translation 'by his friend and pupil, F. B.'; the foreword to Mosher's edition (1898), quoting Lady Burton, says he composed it on the journey back from Mecca under 'one of his Eastern noms-de-plume'. «Гезди» renders 'el-Yezdî'. It postdates Conway (1874), and none of the saved anthologies has it; how it reached Tolstoy was not found.
Translation note. The name is given as Tolstoy wrote it, «Хаджи Абдул Гезди»: “Hâjî Abdû el-Yezdî” is the name under which Richard Burton published The Kasîdah (1880).