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Ransom, John Crowe: Téli emlék (Winter Remembered in Hungarian)

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Portre of Tótfalusi István

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Winter Remembered (English)

Two evils, monstrous either one apart,
Possessed me, and were long and loath at going:
A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart,
And in the wood the furious winter blowing.

Think not, when fire was bright upon my bricks,
And past the tight boards hardly a wind could enter,
I glowed like them, the simple burning sticks,
Far from my cause, my proper heat and center.

Better to walk forth in the frozen air
And wash my wound in the snows; that would be healing;
Because my heart would throb less painful there,
Being caked with cold, and past the smart of feeling.

And where I walked, the murderous winter blast
Would have this body bowed, these eyeballs streaming,
And though I think this heart’s blood froze not fast
It ran too small to spare one drop for dreaming.

Dear love, these fingers that had known your touch,
And tied our separate forces first together,
Were ten poor idiot fingers not worth much,
Ten frozen parsnips hanging in the weather.



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Téli emlék (Hungarian)

Két kín - szörnyű bármelyik egymaga -
Tartott fogva, hogy szenvedtem kesergőn:
Szívemben a nagy Hiány jajszava
És a dühöngő téli szél az erdőn.

Ne hidd, hogy míg kandallóm lobogott,
S zárt ajtón át útját vad szél se lelte,
Mint a hasábok, én izzottam ott,
Szívem való hőforrását feledve.

Inkább a gyilkos szélbe léptem én,
Sebem hóval mostam, remélve: nem ver
A szív sem ott kinn oly fájón szegény;
Vágyam kínját űztem maró hideggel.

S kinn a tél legádázabb dühe várt,
Meggörnyesztett, és könnyeim fakadtak,
Lassan megfagyott szívem vére már,
Még ábrándozni egy cseppje maradt csak.

Ujjaim, melyek érték kezedet
S erőinket kapcsolták egybe hajdan,
Buta csonkokként csüngtek reszketeg:
Tíz fagyott virágszirom a viharban.



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Source of the quotationT. I.

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