Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj

“ The Pacha staggers; he holds it high;
He drinks; he falls with a moan and cry:
They laugh, they cross, but they drink no more—
For the dead in the dungeon-cave are four.
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“ What kind of a feeder is he? That 's the kind!
“Is he clever at jumping a fence?”
What a question to ask! He 's immense
At a leap!
How absurd!
Why, the trouble 's to keep
Such a Pegasus down to the ground. ”

“ She did me bear;
But, no! each curse would break, not bind,
The heart ye share.
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“ Погоди га!"
- тако врабац одговара.
"Знаш ли, море, зашт' те питам?"
"Јер си мачка, а ја птица!"
- То је реко
па утеко, -
оста мачка тужна лица.
A Sparrow and a Cat
"Where will you winter, sparrow?"
- a cat asks a sparrow old. ”

“ To be hugged by the girls and be praised by the chaps.
We had beaten the gale,
And Selim was dry as a bone—well, perhaps,
Just a little bit damp on the tip of his tail. [1]
↑ Readers will be reminded by this conclusion of Mark Twain's story of the fast horse as told to him by Oudinot, of the Sandwich Islands, and recorded in “The Galaxy” for April, 1871. In that veracious narrative it is related that not a single drop fell on the driver, but the dog was swimming behind the wagon all the way. ”