Březina, Otokar: Is this Earth? (Zem? in English)
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Zem? (Czech)Svět rozkládá se za světem, Sta bratří řeklo: Známe tajemství jeho,
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Is this Earth? (English)World upon world looms up,
Star upon star in midnight's dark reign, And one in their midst abides, round a dazzling orb it circles, And the sound of its flight is a joyous and baffling refrain, And the souls of them who have suffered the most May enter within its domain. Brethren by hundreds have said: We have fathomed its secret, There do the dead from slumber arise, in slumber the quick pass away; Lovers have said: Its surfeit of lustre will blind us And time, like fragrance of blossoms unknown, all its dwellers will slay: And those whose vision has power to range through the ages, Is this earth? they smilingly say. |