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Heritage | Spad​č​yna

from Azure Lakes by Vojstrau

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From forebear's ages, long since gone
A heritage has come to me,
Among strange folk, among my own
Me it caresses, motherly.

Of it to me dream-fables sing
Of first thaw-patches, vernally,
The woods' September murmuring,
An oak-tree lone, half burned away.

Memories of it, like storks aclack
Upon the lime have woken me,
Of a mossed fence, old, gone to wrack,
Fallen near the village, brokenly;

The dreary bleat of lambs that pours
Out in the pasture, endlessly,
The caw of the assembled crows
On the graves in the cemetery.

And through black night and through white day
I keep my watch unceasingly,
Lest this my treasure goes astray,
Lest by drones it should eaten be.

I bear it in my living soul
Like torch-flame ever bright for me
That through deaf darkness to my goal,
Midst vandals it may lighten me.

With it lives my thought-family.
Bringing dreams of sincerity...
And its name, all-in-all must be
My native land, my heritage.

1919
Janka Kupała
Translated by V.Rich

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from Azure Lakes, released January 15, 2015

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Vojstrau Minsk, Belarus

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