Khlebnikov

[Robert Chandler]

Dear all,

This is from his

ВОЗЗВАНИЕ ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЕЙ ЗЕМНОГО ШАРА

То мы отрицаем господ,
Именующих себя правителями,
Государствами и другими книгоиздательствами,
И торговыми домами «Война и Кo»,
Приставившими мельницы милого благополучия
К уже трехлетнему водопаду
Вашего пива и нашей крови
С беззащитно красной волной.

Have I translated it correctly?

we reject the lords

who call themselves rulers,

states, publishing houses

and trading companies of ‘War and Co’

who have applied the mills of a dear prosperity

to what is now a three-year waterfall

of your beer and our blood

with a defenceless red wave.


The word I am most unsure of are "Приставившими".  I wonder if it might mean "placed the mills... UNDER a ...waterfall. I also don't understand the relation of the last line to everything that has gone before.  

I'll be grateful for help!

Robert




Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD





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