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"What?" "For pay!"</b></div> <div> <B>And in the narrow lane</b></div> <div> <B>Good girls shouldn't wave away</b></div> <div> <B>Such offers and say "nay".</b></div> <div> <B>That she agreed was plain. </b></div> <div> <B>With her sack on my back</b></div> <div> <B>I start, but half-way, feeling slack,</b></div> <div> <B>I want my pay - three kisses.</b></div> <div> <B>She stops - just like her, see?</b></div> <div> <B>Obstructs the way and thinks</b></div> <div> <B>And tells no end of things,</b></div> <div> <B>Too much, she can't agree:</b></div> <div> <B>Out of the question - three! </b></div> <div> <B>On two she does agree,</b></div> <div> <B>So, she pays half the fee;</b></div> <div> <B>The rest is due tonight</b></div> <div> <B>(Our meeting she can't miss),</b></div> <div> <B>Though she'll forget I judge!</b></div> <div> <B>So here I am, poor drudge,</b></div> <div> <B>To bear her sack and trudge -</b></div> <div> <B>All this for just one kiss!</b></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Decebal to his people</b><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="5thGrader" ><B> </b></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>This life is a lost boon if you</b></div> <div> <B>Don't live it as you wanted to!</b></div> <div> <B>Much would a warlike, ruthless foe</b></div> <div> <B>Enslave us all! Our birth, we know,</b></div> <div> <B>Was woe enough; would you get through</b></div> <div> <B>Another dreadful woe? </b></div> <div> <B>Death, even for a godlike scion,</b></div> <div> <B>Is a hard law, as hard as iron!</b></div> <div> <B>It is all one to breathe one's last</b></div> <div> <B>A lad or an old man bypast,</b></div> <div> <B>But not the same to die a lion</b></div> <div> <B>Or a poor dog chained fast. </b></div> <div> <B>What if you fight in the first line,</b></div> <div> <B>What if by great exploits you shine?</b></div> <div> <B>A grumbler cannot better be</b></div> <div> <B>Than those who fear to fight and flee!</b></div> <div> <B>To murmur is to have no spine</b></div> <div> <B>And make a bootless plea! </b></div> <div> <B>Like dead men, cowards will keep still!</b></div> <div> <B>The living - let them laugh at will!</b></div> <div> <B>The really good ones laugh and die.</b></div> <div> <B>Hold, therefore, heroes, your brows high</b></div> <div> <B>And let your lusty cheering fill</b></div> <div> <B>Both hell and earth and sky! </b></div> <div> <B>Blood may in floods and torrents flow,</b></div> <div> <B>The arm assail with spear and blow,</b></div> <div> <B>When the fierce enemies are dead!</b></div> <div> <B>Well, you may think yourself Godhead,</b></div> <div> <B>When you but laugh at what the foe</b></div> <div> <B>Does more than all else dread. </b></div> <div> <B>They're Romans, we know that. So what?</b></div> <div> <B>Where they not Romans but our god,</b></div> <div> <B>Zamolxes, with his creatures, still</b></div> <div> <B>We would, sure, ask them what they will -</b></div> <div> <B>They won't get of our land a jot:</b></div> <div> <B>They have their skies to fill! </b></div> <div> <B>Now, men, to sword and shield and horn!</b></div> <div> <B>'Twas bad enough that we were born;</b></div> <div> <B>But he is free to go whose fright</b></div> <div> <B>Makes him too dastardly to fight,</b></div> <div> <B>And if there is someone foresworn,</b></div> <div> <B>Let him avoid our sight! </b></div> <div> <B>What I have told you is enow!</b></div> <div> <B>You swore on shields your oath of love</b></div> <div> <B>For Dacia! Might resides in you</b></div> <div> <B>And in the gods! But, heroes, know</b></div> <div> <B>That they, the gods, are far above,</b></div> <div> <B>Our foes - at a stone's throw!</b></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Spring harbingers</b><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="5thGrader" ><B> </b></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>From sunny countries and skies blue</b></div> <div> <B>From which last automn-tide you flew,</b></div> <div> <B>Return, dear birds, where you belong,</b></div> <div> <B>Most welcome, you!</b></div> <div> <B>The woods, bereft of leaf and song,</b></div> <div> <B>Weep for they have missed you too long. </b></div> <div> <B>In the eternal dome of azure</b></div> <div> <B>Did you not dream with longside pleasure</b></div> <div> <B>Of what you left? Did you not sigh</b></div> <div> <B>For dear Home's leisure?</b></div> <div> <B>Or cry when seeing in the sky</b></div> <div> <B>The clouds that northwardly did hie? </b></div> <div> <B>You sang to Nature paeans fraught</b></div> <div> <B>With holiness, strangers you taught</b></div> <div> <B>Our soulful doinas when, at times,</b></div> <div> <B>Of us you thought.</b></div> <div> <B>But did you tell them that their rhymes</b></div> <div> <B>Excle all those of other climes? </b></div> <div> <B>Now you come home - and you will see,</b></div> <div> <B>Again, the wood, the field, the lea,</b></div> <div> <B>Your nests in groves, so warm and deep;</b></div> <div> <B>'Tis summer, verily.</b></div> <div> <B>I feel I have a mind to leap,</b></div> <div> <B>To laugh for joy, for joy to weep! </b></div> <div> <B>You come accompanied by flowers,</b></div> <div> <B>By gentle winds and sun-warmed showers,</b></div> <div> <B>And nights so rife with honey-dew,</b></div> <div> <B>And cheerful hours.</b></div> <div> <B>You thus take everything with you,</b></div> <div> <B>And bring back everything anew.</b></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Second to none</b><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="5thGrader" ><B> </b></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Her shoulders with fair braids are graced,</b></div> <div> <B>Lithe as the wheat-stem is her waist,</b></div> <div> <B>Her sable apron laced with taste --</b></div> <div> <B>She's all in all for me.</b></div> <div> <B>When she is near, I take alarm;</b></div> <div> <B>When she is off, I come to harm;</b></div> <div> <B>When others take her by the arm,</b></div> <div> <B>Priests pray to set me free! </b></div> <div> <B>A three hours' talk and she's away,</b></div> <div> <B>While I pretend to go, yet stay</b></div> <div> <B>And watch her plodding on her way</b></div> <div> <B>Till I see her no more.</b></div> <div> <B>She is quite poor, yet on my life</b></div> <div> <B>I'll take her for my wedded wife,</b></div> <div> <B>Though wicked men, with love at strife,</b></div> <div> <B>About our love feel sore! </b></div> <div> <B>The gossips chat and disagree;</b></div> <div> <B>My brothers all speak ill of me,</b></div> <div> <B>And Father mighty cross is he,</b></div> <div> <B>While, genuflecting, Mother</b></div> <div> <B>Entreats the icons, fasts, forlorn</b></div> <div> <B>And cries, "you's better ne'er been born!</b></div> <div> <B>You work your will, you thing of scorn!</b></div> <div> <B>You work your will, oh brother!" </b></div> <div> <B>I work my will? What if I do?</b></div> <div> <B>I'll somehow manage to pull through!</b></div> <div> <B>And if I don't, I shall live too,</b></div> <div> <B>A poor man in my cot.</b></div> <div> <B>To seek my brothers' help? Not I!</b></div> <div> <B>I'll never share with them their pie!</b></div> <div> <B>I'll work my will and shall not die</b></div> <div> <B>With brooding o'er my lot! </b></div> <div> <B>My kin would bury me alive!</b></div> <div> <B>The fright they're asking me to wive</b></div> <div> <B>May love me, but how could we thrive</b></div> <div> <B>When I don't love her any?</b></div> <div> <B>Could I enjoy her land? sow? reap?</b></div> <div> <B>And what's the good of cows and sheep?</b></div> <div> <B>When your own wife you hold so cheap,</b></div> <div> <B>Then nothing's worth a penny! </b></div> <div> <B>Or are there such as can decree</b></div> <div> <B>That what they like is law to me?</b></div> <div> <B>Even you, bishop, cannot be</b></div> <div> <B>That sort, nor can you, sire!</b></div> <div> <B>Let people gossip and make fun,</b></div> <div> <B>My sweetheart second is to none,</b></div> <div> <B>And ere I part with what I've won,</b></div> <div> <B>I'll set the thorp afire!</b></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The shadow</b><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="5thGrader" ><B> </b></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Your burnt offspring's smoke will wind</b></div> <div> <B>Peacefully towards the skies</b></div> <div> <B>Only if you bear in mind</b></div> <div> <B>That when you go to the sun,</b></div> <div> <B>Your dark shadow is behind. </b></div> <div> <B>Silent slave whom the grim lord</b></div> <div> <B>Summons by a silent gesture,</b></div> <div> <B>He takes heed, humble and awed,</b></div> <div> <B>Of the slightest beckoning,</b></div> <div> <B>And keeps everything well scored. </b></div> <div> <B>He's your bondman when your flight</b></div> <div> <B>Is directed to the sun;</b></div> <div> <B>He hurts not, he's out of sight;</b></div> <div> <B>Holy rays surround your forehead,</b></div> <div> <B>And you do advance in light. </b></div> <div> <B>But your shadow councils ill</b></div> <div> <B>When you leave the sun behind;</b></div> <div> <B>He will cloud your face until</b></div> <div> <B>Your keen eyes become purblind --</b></div> <div> <B>He is nothing but ill-will! </b></div> <div> <B>Shadow, sun, shrine, smoke, and glow!</b></div> <div> <B>Useless is my tale, unless</b></div> <div> <B>You have understood it. So --</b></div> <div> <B>You may choose! You are just starting;</b></div> <div> <B>I have long been on the go.</b></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The poet</b><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="5thGrader" ><B> </b></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>A soul in the soul of my people am I</b></div> <div> <B>And sing of its sorrows and joys,</b></div> <div> <B>For mine are your wounds and I cry</b></div> <div> <B>Whenever you do, drinking dry</b></div> <div> <B>That chalice of poison that's meant for Fate's toys.</b></div> <div> <B>Whatever your pathway, together we'll ail,</b></div> <div> <B>We'll bear the same cross and we'll feel the same nail;</b></div> <div> <B>Your banner and creed will be mine;</b></div> <div> <B>The shrine of my hopes I shan't fail</b></div> <div> <B>To set by the side your shrine. </b></div> <div> <B>A heart of my people's great heart;</b></div> <div> <B>I sing of its love and its hate;</b></div> <div> <B>The part that you play is the fire's; my part</b></div> <div> <B>Is that of the wind; you're mate</b></div> <div> <B>In all that's decided by Fate.</b></div> <div> <B>You're the source and the aim of whatever I sing</b></div> <div> <B>And if at times say a thing</b></div> <div> <B>That's not in your Scriptures, you can,</b></div> <div> <B>Most holy celestial King,</b></div> <div> <B>Lock up with a lightning the mouth of a man. </b></div> <div> <B>Some people hold dear and supreme</b></div> <div> <B>What's vain in the other men's eye;</b></div> <div> <B>But he who can scan both the earth and the sky</b></div> <div> <B>And set up a bridge 'tween the low and the high,</b></div> <div> <B>Will always distinguish "to be" from "to seem".</b></div> <div> <B>My heart is all yours and your heart is in me</b></div> <div> <B>Whatever your place on the chart</b></div> <div> <B>Of forth-coming ages, whatever they decree,</b></div> <div> <B>For you, mine own people, of your soul I will be</b></div> <div> <B>For ever and ever a part.</b></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Three, mighty God, all three!</b><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="5thGrader" ><B> </b></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>He had three sons and they, all three,</b></div> <div> <B>When called, for the encampment left;</b></div> <div> <B>So the poor father was bereft</b></div> <div> <B>Of rest and peace, for war, thought he.</b></div> <div> <B>Is hard - one has no time to feel</b></div> <div> <B>That one has ceased to be. </b></div> <div> <B>And many months went in and out,</b></div> <div> <B>And rife with tidings was the world:</b></div> <div> <B>No more were Turkish flags unfurled,</b></div> <div> <B>The Moslems had been put to rout,</b></div> <div> <B>For the unscarred Romanian lads</b></div> <div> <B>Full well had fought throughout. </b></div> <div> <B>The papers wrote that all the men</b></div> <div> <B>That had been called the spring before</b></div> <div> <B>Were due to quit the site of war;</b></div> <div> <B>So to the village came again</b></div> <div> <B>Now one, and now another yet</b></div> <div> <B>Of those who had left then. </b></div> <div> <B>But they were long in coming, they. </b></div> <div> <B>He wept - he thought how they would meet, </b></div> <div> <B>So at the gate or in the street </b></div> <div> <B>He scrutinized the roads all day, </b></div> <div> <B>And they came not. And fear was born </b></div> <div> <B>And lengthened the delay. </b></div> <div> <B>His ardent hope waned more and more </b></div> <div> <B>And ever bleaker grew his fear; </b></div> <div> <B>And though he questioned far and near, </b></div> <div> <B>All shrugged their shoulders as before; </b></div> <div> <B>At last, then, he went to the barracks </b></div> <div> <B>To learn what was in store. </b></div> <div> <B>The corporal met him. "Sir, my son. </b></div> <div> <B>My Radu, well - how does he fare ?" </b></div> <div> <B>He did for all his children care, </b></div> <div> <B>But Radu was the dearest one. </b></div> <div> <B>"He's dead. In the first ranks, at Plevna </b></div> <div> <B>He fell. And well he's done !" </b></div> <div> <B>Poor man... That Radu was in dust </b></div> <div> <B>He had long felt, and felt past cure; </b></div> <div> <B>But now, when he did know for sure, </b></div> <div> <B>He stood bewildered and nonplussed. </b></div> <div> <B>Dead Radu ? What ? The news exceeded</b></div> <div> <B>All human sense and trust. </b></div> <div> <B>Be curst, o, fiendish arm and man ! </b></div> <div> <B>"And how is George ?" "Sir, I'm afraid</b></div> <div> <B>Under a cross he has been laid, </b></div> <div> <B>Breast-smitten by a yataghan."</b></div> <div> <B>"And my poor Mircea ?" "Mircea, too,</b></div> <div> <B>Died somewhere near Smirdan." </b></div> <div> <B>He said no word - dumb with the doom, </b></div> <div> <B>With forehead bent, like, on the cross, </b></div> <div> <B>A Christ, he looked, all at a loss </b></div> <div> <B>At the mute flooring of the room. </b></div> <div> <B>He seemed he saw in front of him</b></div> <div> <B>Three corpses in a tomb. </b></div> <div> <B>With feeble gait and dizzy eyes </b></div> <div> <B>He walks into the open air; </b></div> <div> <B>While groaning, stumbling on the stair, </b></div> <div> <B>He calls his boys by name and cries </b></div> <div> <B>And fumbling for some wall around</b></div> <div> <B>To stand upright he tries. </b></div> <div> <B>The blow he hardly can withstand; </b></div> <div> <B>He does not know if he is dead </b></div> <div> <B>Or still alive; he rests his head </b></div> <div> <B>Upon a bank of burning sand; </b></div> <div> <B>His long, emaciated face</b></div> <div> <B>He buries in his hand. </b></div> <div> <B>And so the man sat woe-begone. </b></div> <div> <B>It was midsummer and mid-day; </b></div> <div> <B>Yet soon the sun faded away </b></div> <div> <B>And lastly it was set and gone; </b></div> <div> <B>The human wreck would never budge; </b></div> <div> <B>He just stood on and on. </b></div> <div> <B>Past him, men, women walked care-free,</b></div> <div> <B>Cabs on the highroad rumbled by,</b></div> <div> <B>Past marched the soldiers with steps high,</b></div> <div> <B>And then, the moment he could see,</b></div> <div> <B>He pressed his temples with his fists:</b></div> <div> <B>"Three, mighty God, all three !";</b></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>We want land</b><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="5thGrader" ><B> </b></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>I'm hungry, naked, homeless, through,</b></div> <div> <B>Because of loads I had to carry;</b></div> <div> <B>You've spat on me, and hit me - marry,</b></div> <div> <B>A dog I've been to you !</b></div> <div> <B>Vile lord, whom winds brought to this land,</b></div> <div> <B>If hell itself gives you free hand</b></div> <div> <B>To tread us down and make us bleed,</b></div> <div> <B>We will endure both load and need,</b></div> <div> <B>The plough and harness yet take heed,</b></div> <div> <B>We ask for land! </b></div> <div> <B>Whene'er you see a crust of bread,</b></div> <div> <B>Though brown and stale, we see's no more;</b></div> <div> <B>You drag our sons to ruthless war,</b></div> <div> <B>Our daughters to your bed.</b></div> <div> <B>You curse what we hold dear and grand,</b></div> <div> <B>Faith and compassion you have banned;</b></div> <div> <B>Our children starve with want and chill</b></div> <div> <B>And we go mad with pity, still</b></div> <div> <B>We'd bear the grinding of your mill,</b></div> <div> <B>Had we but land ! </b></div> <div> <B>You've turned into a field of corn</b></div> <div> <B>The village graveyard, and we plough</b></div> <div> <B>And dig out bones and weep and mourn</b></div> <div> <B>Oh, had we ne'er been born !</b></div> <div> <B>For those are bones of our own bone,</b></div> <div> <B>But you don't care, o hearts of stone !</b></div> <div> <B>Out of our house you drive us now,</b></div> <div> <B>And dig our dead out of their grave;</b></div> <div> <B>A silent corner of their own</b></div> <div> <B>The land we crave ! </b></div> <div> <B>Besides, we want to know for sure</b></div> <div> <B>That we, too, shall together lie,</b></div> <div> <B>That on the day on which we die,</b></div> <div> <B>You will not mock the poor. </b></div> <div> <B>The orphans, those to us so dear,</b></div> <div> <B>Who o'er a grave would shed a tear, </b></div> <div> <B>Won't know the ditches where we rot;</b></div> <div> <B>We've been denied a burial plot </b></div> <div> <B>Though we are Christians, are we not ?</b></div> <div> <B>We ask for land, d'you hear ? </b></div> <div> <B>Nor have we time to say a prayer,</b></div> <div> <B>For time is in your power too;</b></div> <div> <B>A soul is all we have, and you </b></div> <div> <B>Much you do care ! </b></div> <div> <B>You've sworn to rob us of the right </b></div> <div> <B>To tell our grievances outright;</b></div> <div> <B>You give us torture when we shout,</b></div> <div> <B>Unheard-of torture, chain and clout </b></div> <div> <B>And lead when, dead tired, we cry out: </b></div> <div> <B>For land we'll fight ! </b></div> <div> <B>What is it you've here buried ? say ! </b></div> <div> <B>Corn ? maize ? We have forbears and mothers,</b></div> <div> <B>We, fathers, sisters dear and brothers ! </b></div> <div> <B>Unwished - for guests, away ! </b></div> <div> <B>Our land is holy, rich and brave, </b></div> <div> <B>It is our cradle and our grave; </b></div> <div> <B>We have defended it with sweat </b></div> <div> <B>And blood, and bitter tears have wet </b></div> <div> <B>Each palm of it - so, don't forget: </b></div> <div> <B>'Tis land we crave ! </b></div> <div> <B>We can no more endure the goads, </b></div> <div> <B>No more the hunger, the disasters </b></div> <div> <B>That follow on the heels of masters</b></div> <div> <B>Picked from the roads ! </b></div> <div> <B>God grant that we shall not demand</b></div> <div> <B>Your hated blood instead of land ! </b></div> <div> <B>When hunger will untie our ties </b></div> <div> <B>And poverty will make us rise. </b></div> <div> <B>E'en in your grave we will chastise </b></div> <div> <B>You and your band !</b></div> </td> </tr></table></body>