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Hardy, Thomas: Az utolsó krizantém (The Last Chrysanthemum in Hungarian)

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The Last Chrysanthemum (English)

Why should this flower delay so long

To show its tremulous plumes?

Now is the time of plaintive robin-song,

When flowers are in their tombs.

 

Through the slow summer, when the sun

Called to each frond and whorl

That all he could for flowers was being done,

Why did it not uncurl?

 

It must have felt that fervid call

Although it took no heed,

Waking but now, when leaves like corpses fall,

And saps all retrocede.

 

Too late its beauty, lonely thing,

The season’s shine is spent,

Nothing remains for it but shivering

In tempests turbulent.

 

Had it a reason for delay,

Dreaming in witlessness

That for a bloom so delicately gay

Winter would stay its stress?

 

- I talk as if the thing were born

With sense to work its mind;

Yet it is but one mask of many worn

By the Great Face behind.



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Az utolsó krizantém (Hungarian)

Miért csak most bontja ki még

rezgő tollazatát?

A vörösbegy most sírja énekét,

s meghal minden virág.

 

A nap már minden levelet

és bimbót szólított,

hogy virágokért többet nem tehet –

mért nem akkor nyitott?

 

Lázas volt s mégse sietett

a sürgetés szerint,

csak most, mikor levéltetemek

hullnak, s nedv nem kering?

 

Elkésett szépség, maga van,

a tündöklés oda.

Mi várja? didergeti zordonan

az ősz vad vihara.

 

Vagy késlekedni volt oka,

az ostoba remény,

hogy ily gyöngéd-víg virághoz a

tél sem lehet kemény?

 

– Úgy szólok, mintha szirmait

ész hajtaná, pedig ez

csak egy maszk a sok közül, amit

a Nagy Arc magára vesz.



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Source of the quotationhttp://irc.sunchat.hu/vers/

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