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MacDiarmid, Hugh: Cattle Show

Portre of MacDiarmid, Hugh

Cattle Show (English)

I shall go among red faces and virile voices,

See stylish sheep, with fine heads and well-wooled,

And great bulls mellow to the touch,

Brood mares of marvellous approach, and geldings

With sharp and flinty bones and silken hair.

 

And through th' enclosure draped in red and gold

I shall pass on to spheres more vivid yet

Where countesses' coque feathers gleam and glow

And, swathed in silks, the painted ladies are

Whose laughter plays like summer lightning there.



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Marhamustra (Hungarian)

Pozsgás pofák, harsány hangok közt vágok át,

és mustrálgatok fedezésre érett

nagy bikát, remek formás-gyapjas birkát,

kerek farú, csodás tenyészkancákat,

s hegyes csontú, selyemszőrű heréltet.

 

Az arany s vörös posztós palánkon túl

még náluk is jobb társaság tekint rám,

ahol a grófnék pávatolla villog,

és festett dámák suhognak selyemben.

A kacagásuk: mint a nyári villám.



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