Nature
He’s going far from home
Translated by Joseph Štýbr (1920) · From Evening Songs (Večerní písně), trans. Štýbr (1920)
He’s going far from home,
With sorrow laden;
He turns yet and looks back—
Good-bye, dear maiden!
He turns yet and looks back,
His kerchief waving;
With kerchief he dries yet
Eyes in tears laving.
And now behind him closed
A foreign region
As in the sky the lark
Gets lost to vision.
He’s gone, but he’ll come back
Again, joy-laden—
But ere he will return—
Good-bye, dear maiden!
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MLA
Hálek, Vítězslav. “He’s going far from home.” Translated by Joseph Štýbr. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/halek/64/.
Chicago
Hálek, Vítězslav. “He’s going far from home.” Translated by Joseph Štýbr. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/halek/64/.
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