Kochanowski, Jan
Lament XIII
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Prall, Dorothea
Kozioł, Paweł
Lech, Justyna
Niedziałkowska, Marta
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Jan Kochanowski, Laments, University of California Press, Berkeley 1920
Domena publiczna - Dorothea Prall
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Jan Kochanowski
Laments
Lament XIII
Ursula, winsome child, I would that I/
Had never had thee if thou wert to die/
So early. For with lasting grief I pay,/
Now thou hast left me, for thy sweet, brief stay./
Thou didst delude me like a dream by night/
That shines in golden fullness on the sight,/
Then vanishes, and to the man awake/
Leaves only of its treasures much heartbreak./
So hast thou done to me, belovèd cheat:/
Thou madest with high hope my heart to beat/
And then didst hurry off and bear with thee/
All of the gladness thou once gavest me./
'Tis half my heart I lack through this thy taking/
And what is left is good for naught but aching./
Stonecutters, set me up a carven stone/
And let this sad inscription run thereon:/
Ursula Kochanowski lieth here,/
Her father's sorrow and her father's dear;/
For heedless Death hath acted here crisscross:/
She should have mourned my death, not I her loss.