Up
Next

Sorry. Get a new browser.
Asnyk

Asnyk
Konopnicka

Grey horse, you don't know: grey horse, you don't know.
Why are you musing so?
You don't know the road, don't know the road
To my darling across the snow.

My love has forsaken you and me.
Without a word she has gone
Unless you find the road to her
We must both search on and on.

Grey horse, we'll outrun: grey horse, we'll outrun.
It will be hard to keep pace.
We'll outrun this wind which is blowing
We shall not rest from our chase.

Grey horse, my heart: grey horse, my heart:
My heart weighs more than I:
For it has lost all thought of hope
And it doesn't even know why.

Translated by Singer Burns

 

Pointless your mourning

Pointless your mourning and your toil
Helpless your curses dire 
Past forms no miracle can bring
Back from funereal pyre.

The world will not release its grip
On fleeting ghosts of yore
Fire or sword will not bring back
What's lost forevermore.

One must go forward with the living
Reach for new life, instead
Of placing a bunch of wasted laurels
Stubbornly on one's head.

You shall not turn the tide of life!
Your anger keep at bay
Pointless your mourning and your toil
The world shall go its way.

Translated by Jan Rybicki

 

 

 

 


©2000 Jan Rybicki
This page was last updated on 02/12/01 .