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Evening songs

XXXII

Josef Štýbr translation

Up in the oak tree a dove wailed— Below, a brooklet muttered— Don’t wonder, when I was to speak, That not a word I uttered. Can he speak from all his soul’s depth Who does in strange lands wander? And man’s too human that he should At paradise not wonder.

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