Cheskian Anthology/Fr. Turínsky

by John Bowring

Fr. Turínsky,

 

Born 1796.

 

TURINSKY was born in 1796. He is a lawyer (advokat) in Moravia. His best known work is his Angelina, a tragedy, which has been translated into german.

 

The Maiden by the Stream.

 

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Pere děwa u poloka.

 

The maiden in the flowing stream

⁠Dry hemp doth lay;

Her tears are falling in the stream

From those blue eyes so bright, that beam

⁠The live-long day.

 

"Say maiden! what disturbs thy peace

⁠The livelong day?"

"Deep wounds have stabb'd my spirit's peace,

And nought shall bid its misery cease

⁠But life's decay."

 

"And didst thou see a horrid dream

⁠With pale affright?"

"O no! it was no frightful dream—

It was a shadow on the stream,

⁠But not of night.

 

"It wore a wreath upon its head,

⁠And took its flight;

Borne on the rapid stream it fled

With the green wreath upon its head—

⁠My hopes to spite."

 

The maiden in the flowing stream,

⁠Dry hemp doth lay;

Her tears are falling in the stream,

Her blue eyes paled with life's last gleam

⁠That flits away.

 

FINIS.

 

T. C. Hansard, Printer,

Paternoster-row.