Translation:Faded Rose XLVIII

Faded Rose XLVIII
by Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj, translated from Serbian by Wikisource
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"Do you understand what the world is?"
The flight of happiness once asked me.

"Do you understand it now?"
Bitter misery asks me.

— Then I did not want to say;
Now — I would not dare.

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