A Book of Czech Verse — The Window

J. Hora

1958

Exported from Wikisource on November 28, 2021

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 J. HORA
(1891–1945)

OKNO THE WINDOW

Otevřel jsem okno do I opened the window

tmy tekuté, to the flowing
hvězdy na mne darkness,
střikly se slavičím To drenching stars
zpěvem. with the
Pamatuješ na tmu se nightingale’s song.
slavičím zpěvem Remember the
v oné noci černé, darkness, the
husté, tekuté? nightingale’s song,
That night in the
Otevřel jsem okno do blackness, the thick-
tmy stříbrné, flowing dark?
kolem mne jak šál se
omotal šum jezu. I opened the window
Pamatuješ na tu to the silvery
těžkou vůni bezu darkness,
na měkkém dně noci As winding about me
oné stříbrné? the weir’s murmur
fell.
Otevřel jsem okno do Remember the lilac’s

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tmy, hovořící heavy smell,
se slavíkem, jezem, s In the yielding
kruhy na měsíci, depths of that silvery
s doznívajícími night?
kroky na silnici.
I opened the window
Otevřel jsem okno, to the darkness that
kroky zašly v tichu, echoed
kroky našich The weir, the
dávných, sladkých, nightingale, rings on
plachých hříchů the moon,
po tekuté tmě a po And steps on the
stříbrném tichu. road that were fading
away.

I opened the
window: steps died
into silence.
The steps of our
sweet, shy, distant
sins,
In the flowing
darkness, the silvery
silence.

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