An Anthology of Czechoslovak Literature/Vrbice

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Vrbice

BENEATH Bohumín, where the speech of my grandsires has ceased to resound,And by Hrušov, where smoke issues from a red factory,My lord’s factory, where we breathe hard and hardly,Thou liest, my hamlet, with the wooden chapel. ​Decayed are the huts, upon whose roofs the moss grows rankly;Four poplars show Christ on the cross.ThusThey thrust a crown of thorns on my brow at Bohumín,Nailed my hands at Ostrava, at Těšín they pierced through my heart,At Lipina they gave me vinegar to drink,By Lysá they pierced my feet with a nail.One day, ah, one day, thou wilt come unto me,Thou maiden with dark and lack-lustre eyes,Who bearest a poppy in thy hands.Still shall the whip resound, still shall they hound us downBeneath Bohumín and at Hrušov, at Lutyň, at Baška,No more do I hear; I reck not thereof,I reck not of aught.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1930.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1970, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 54 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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