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Yeats, William Butler: A kabát (A Coat in Hungarian)

Portre of Yeats, William Butler
Portre of Naschitz Frigyes

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A Coat (English)

I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world’s eyes
As though they’d wrought it.
Song, let them take it
For there’s more enterprise
In walking naked.



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A kabát (Hungarian)

Dalomra kabátot adtam
aztán elégedetten
ős-mitológiából vett
hímzéssel díszítettem.
Balgák lehúzták rólam.
Dalomból így lett közszemlére tett
kiszolgált szólam.
Nincs benne előny, vagy haszon:
hiszen több értelemben
járkálunk csupaszon!



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Source of the quotationN. F.

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