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Parker, Dorothy: Bric-a-brac (Bric-a-brac in Hungarian)

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Portre of Naschitz Frigyes

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Bric-a-brac (English)

Little things that no one needs --

Little things to joke about --

Little landscapes, done in beads.

Little morals, woven out,

Little wreaths of gilded grass,

Little brigs of whittled oak

Bottled painfully in glass;

These are made by lonely folk.

 

Lonely folk have lines of days

Long and faltering and thin;

Therefore -- little wax bouquets,

Prayers cut upon a pin,

Little maps of pinkish lands,

Little charts of curly seas,

Little plats of linen strands,

Little verses, such as these.



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Bric-a-brac (Hungarian)

Apró céltalan holmik,

limlom, csecsebecse,

kis gyöngyre fűzött tárgyak

kihímzett népmese,

aranyból csöpp füzérek,

vitorlák, kerekek,       

ezeken barkácsolnak

magányos emberek.

 

Magányos ember napja

mély hallgatásba zárt,

zsoltárhoz, jókedvében

viasz-bokrétát gyárt.

Térképet, melyen tengert

rózsaszín part övez,

vászonból mennyországot

és versikét, mint ez.



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Source of the quotationN. F.

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