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Demény Ottó: Dreams in the snow (Álom a havon in English)

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Portre of Kery, Leslie A.

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Álom a havon (Hungarian)

Meghempereg a hóban hét gyerek
téli vagányok frissek tüzesek
s míg havashátú jézuskát csinálnak
kabátujjaik fényes angyalszárnyak

voltam én is árokpartok vitéze
sikongó lányok égőfülü réme
hó bolondja kin nem fogott a fagy
aki a jégre vassal irogat

csináltam szánkót - négy léc semmi több
fülem mellett a szél süvöltözött
mert csengős szánhoz kötve a zsineg
s parasztlovak futása röpitett

és álmodtam a hóhullásba ott
szabadságot s még szilajabb fagyot
jégkardot kék zuzmara-süveget
hátam mögé dübörgő sereget

hódítani már mit is - nem tudom
csak álom volt az álom a havon
a végtelen ónszínű ég alatt
s hullott a hó nagy pelyhekben szakadt



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PublisherSzépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, Budapest
Source of the quotationÁlom a havon

Dreams in the snow (English)

Seven youngsters are rolling in the snow
roughnecks of winter fiery on the go
making a Christ child with snow on back and limbs
the sleeves of their coats are shiny angel wings
 
I also was a brave along the trenches
red-eared terror of the squealing wenches
fool of the snow who stood up in a trice
to frost and wrote with iron on the ice
 
I made a sled four slats of wood were all
winds by my ears were blowing with a roar
because a sleigh bedecked with bells a tie
and gait of country horses made it fly
 
I dreamt there in the snowfall from aloft
of freedom and of more severe a frost
a sword of ice a helmet made of hoar
and thundering troops that followed by the score
 
to conquer what I know not - it would seem
that dream of snow was only just a dream
under those endless lofty pewter highs
great flakes of snow kept falling from the skies



Uploaded byP. T.
Source of the quotationL. A. K.

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