TO PRAGUE (1938)


Ye faint of faith Bone gnawing time

has been her beauty giver

from wailing fields illuminated ever

those muralled texts of portals and of walls

Ever more thus

Ye faint of faith

Ever more thus

Beyond our rivers’ gates

hard hooves do thunder

beyond our rivers’ gates

by hooves torn asunder

lies the ground

and the dread Revelation’s riders

their flag swirl round

Light are the laurel leaves

heavy the fallen’s snow

I know I know

Fear not the dark Fear not the dark

a fugue the like of which ne’er played by Sebastian Bach

as we shall here make sound

when the time comes when the time comes

The bronze horse of St Wenceslas

did last night restless stir

and the prince clasped his weighty lance

Mark the chorale’s advance

Ye faint of faith

Mark the chorale’s advance


作者
František Halas

译者
Václav Z J Pinkava

来源

https://www.vzjp.cz/basne.htm


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