Translation:Wild Song

Wild Song (1865)
by Władysław Tarnowski, translated from Polish by Wikisource

(FROM THE POEM „ARTUR”.)

„Dzika piosenka” published in vol. "Poezye Studenta", Vol. III, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1865, p. 363-364.

2449104Wild Song — (FROM THE POEM „ARTUR”.)1865Władysław Tarnowski

He confessed the whole truth, and I be justified. But I have commited great crime by my resistance, and prior addressed to me public reprimand for touchy pride deep-seated in my chest...

G. SAND. SPIRIDION.

Between the cup and the lip there’s always a place for disaster...

AL. MUSSET.

Did I love You, you ask me, oh dear,
Voice unknown –
So had Satan to love Lord God
Before he was Satan!...

Did I love You, ask my nights
Guardian angel –
Did I love You, ask in your power
Clouds of my forehead!...

I pray with your love to mankind,
I pray to God,
About her you ask once my eternity
On threshold of hells!...

So far every lightning in soul got lost –
As in widow's forest –
I will confess oneself only with lightning
To my century!...