Translation:Little epigram : Third

Little epigram : Third (1872)
by Władysław Tarnowski, translated from Polish by Wikisource

[Władysław Tarnowski „[Epigrammacik] Trzeci” in: „Nowe Poezye Ernesta Buławy”, Seyferth i Czajkowski, Lvov, 1872, p. 53. ]

2344931Little epigram : Third1872Władysław Tarnowski

Don’t trifle with man's heart
When oneself clings to you,
Because for this hell waits you
And worse than hellish tortures!

No matter how simple, insignificant,
Don’t trifle!.. voice this prophetic,
Because a snake will eat your heart
And it will lie in ashes, destroyed
Crushed by legs of Means …