Parabolic Ballad

[Jasper Fidget]

> 
> > Just stumbled on this, wondered if anyone had noted it before:
> >
> > Along a parabola life like a rocket flies,
> > Mainly in darkness, now and then on a rainbow
> >
> > Andrei Voznesensky, "Parabolic Ballad" (1963)
> > http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/557.html
> 
> No, it's 1958.

Ah, yes I copied the translation date.  Is this considered source material
then?  There is also this translation (from the other direction as it were):

http://spintongues.vladivostok.com/voznesensky2.html