Władysław Tarnowski

“ Among darknesess torning apart with lightnings
But the spirit of nation [is] fuller of the secrets,
When it gets up from dead!... Spirit of peoples of spirit
Lands and seas thunders to your ear,
My nation trust you! ”

“ And from graves will rise the white –
And as the spirit of storm in the group of glitters
Will be till morning gone mad!
Because on voice of thunders strength of Zouaves [3]
It'll refulminate [4] into a soldier ,
That it will be led clouds of storms
As Zouave which in the grave spends the night! ”

“ And sleeping again I sing and I love,
Garment of dreams I blow in the clouds,
I giggle with song, then I sobs ...
I was dreaming here my life
Divine eyes start shining,
I'm a child of pure love
About which you never dreamed!... ”

“ But, once, once, maybe also it,
Like a seed by gales spread,
Will see in homeland a merrier time;
Let then it will remind: you,
Who you went with one hand in combat!
Calling: God look! Tzar halt!... ”

“ God this will remember! And from suns of his throne
He will reward with pearls of dew
Over your children’s heads!..
Because – (a shame to say) among the space of world –
In one Swiss a Pole has a brother today!... ”

“ In the moonlight brought me young oarsman,
He sang barcarolle with orphan's homesickness,
That I saw in waves, the shape full of beauty,
Like snow swan with flying hair
She flowed in glitter ... peace of drowneds
Gemma! ”

“ As you rose from under executioners’s knives,
As my Poland will get up from Your lightning,
God's lamb!
In tears and ashes, on tumuli of brothers,
With blood-stained garment with the tears, on knees,
O look on Poland rising from under the knives,
God's lamb!
To you I remember in tears my homeland,
Her I end my song – and song I begin,
O clean, bright, rising from under the knives,
God's lamb!
They from Bar turned eyes to You,
Dying with protestantion, [1] which death doesn’t frighten;
[By] so many innocents, the enemy stains Your fleece,
God's lamb! ”

“ Tore with talons flying in immortality rushed!...
Today – how there terribly!... the skeleton of ruins among bindweeds, [4]
And only grave of faithful dog stands here,
Bats over the church gate are nesting
Which wrinkles, [in] the crown of ivies wrapped
As a bride of the centuries!... and everything changed
Human hands – here only former stars shine! ”

“ O Rome! Rome! murderess of peoples
You be a monument of the resurrection of the peoples!
O Rome! own skeleton blames you,
Damned your actions until end of the days!
From the ruins of the temple
I see how there the sun of your glory setting in a blood!
At night, I asked catacombs about the glory
The drops which fall from boulders onto boulders
I greeted the triumph of the will in captivity!
And from via Appia I took (at the ruins) illusions
Which fall
A little flower... which today was brought [4] by the toils of so many centuries ... ”

“ You will be hospitably greeted in the house,
We will go in far road, thatstarry,
Because I’m lonely (how you see) tourist!
Wherever I go, I mark trail by sparks,
Misery is life! Nonsense are despairs! ”

“ Time – as lion clung, to strike him will not dare,
Over him watch Eagles and Chases [1]
And they go in ages -
In far end of histories:
"Monumenta Poloniae!" [2]
↑ Orzeł Biały i Pogoń (lub Orły i Pogonie) – White Eagle and Chase (or Eagles and Chases) – coat of arms of Poland in times of union with Lithuania.↑ August Bielowski was editor and publisher of voluminous “Monumenta Poloniae!”, which contain fundamental documents of polish history.
This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content. ”

“ But for that I feel finish of her Resurrection,
Which me darkness, in darkness disperses!
My prayer – that is every man,
Fighting with oneself – disaster – tyrant
And tear of everyone I feel at my eyelids,
As a tears of flowers, weeped at break of day,
When from a great mountain, praying, the sunrise
I greet – and I flow, in the ocean – without end!... ”

“ I sing her portrait ... when flowers on meadows
Foreheads bow before going with a smile,
I sing her portrait ... when hair and garment
Wind preens a groves spring breath –
I sing her portrait .... ”

“ I will give you rice! I will give you wine,
Rock! my son for me,
And take care me about my horse
Don’t give the bones to whiten on the grasslands ...
When they kidnap me and will hang
Let thugs will console you!.. ”

“ Babylonian Marriage of Baal.↑ Phrase: „Such nation, as my” is rare, but phrase: „Such people as my” is common.↑ Phrase „priest of the ground” is rare, but phrases „priest of the Earth” and „priest of the Land” seems common and better match to the meaning.↑ Phrases „among the ground trembling” and „among the earth trembling” seems rare, though phrase „among the earthquakes” is common, but „ziemi trzęsienie” („earthquake”) has slightly different sense than „ziemi drgania”. ”

“ He raises souls – piles up the [dead] bodies
Among the thugs a small child
Mayby you will grow up the savior of the country! –
Maybe you „according to custom”
Tzar will nursed so well
And will drill so bravely,
That Różycki [11] from you will be,
When the country will call,
Thousandfold [12] always, everywhere! . . .
The spirit of martyrdoms, bloody May! . . . ”

“ He leans on the sword, Heart eats up snake;
And she catches him hand, O! this my Johnie!
My nice Johnie! etc.
There we will cuddle, and pet and endear ourselves,
And we will be happy, Happy as alive,
And in one grave, house of happiness o! so many! ”

“ Which Master Angelo [6] covered Peter's rock
I called “The Last Judgment” as a witness! ...
O! Holy Spirit! dove of captivity
Get out! White wing
Take from the female Eagle!.. and stand up from what hurts us !. ”

“ God, I will sense you!...
There white cross over the fence
And under the cross the grave –
[1] Oh! it's better that the orphan
is not born on the world!...
↑ The two last [verses] from people's song ... ”

“ Beats, routs, this puts to death!
There – women like a cattle rush
Fettered in chains.
Near fire they fall
harassed! . . .
Wolf's eye in shadow shines! . . .
In Enlightenment days of Ages . . . ! ”

“ Because I love freedom! because I’m Sarmatian woman!
Because I feel God's spirit! –
Paris, 1867.
↑ Shout of Sarmatian woman – Sarmatian woman, in the sense of: old polish characters, woman of the old-Polish type.↑ Shout of Sarmatian woman – Sarmatian woman, in the sense of: old polish characters, woman of the old-Polish type.↑ my sons [perish] on the heaps –↑ Gromnica – candle blessed on Candlemas Day and lighted at the bedside of dying person. ”

“ In name of Poland, in the name of God
Hurray brothers! etc.
Forward, forward, hey, to work!
Poland is not yet lost! [4]
By our death rises from the dead!
And by this [5] gives others life!
So on cannons in the name of God!
On columns, together on enemy –
On bayonets, on bayonets!
1863
↑ On bayonets – [Combat] on bayonets! – Charge bayonets!↑ On bayonets – [Combat] on bayonets! – Charge bayonets!↑ together through the God” jak i “together by the God”.↑ Poland did not get lost yet!↑ I nią [Śmiercią] – And by her [Death] – And by this [Death] . ”

“ But I have commited great crime by my resistance, and prior addressed to me public reprimand for touchy pride deep-seated in my chest...
G. SAND. SPIRIDION.
Between the cup and the lip there’s always a place for disaster... ”

“ Thugs go hell! Enemies out of the way!
Sleep colleague in your grave, and
Let appear you in a dream Homeland.
So who wants pleasure to use,
Let him go to army to serve.
↑ „Rotmistrz” – captain of horse – captain.↑ „Wachmistrz” – Sergeant Major, Cavalry sergeant. ”

“ The bell of the drowned call for help...
↑ „Topielec” can be translated as: drowned man (in meaning of dead body as well as acting in water environment variety of vampires or zombies in Slavic folk demonology) , nix, water spirit, water-elf. ”

“ Off with your song [you] gipsy son!
From where you dragged [you] pagan son!
* * *
And gipsy son went in forest –
And when moon got up from the North,
Gipsy son swayed on the tree –
Hung – – ! alone and orphan's .. ”

“ Stanin, 1863.
↑ Mines were long ago heavy prisons, for criminals and sometimes for soldiers taken to captivity, or insurgents. Especially if in the intention of government was additional humiliate them. Mortality in such prisons was high. ”

“ Różycki – general Edmund Różycki (1827-1893) , he spent his youth in the Russian Army; then he took part in the January Uprising, winner in the Battle of Salicha, in emigration 1864-1872, after returning to Krakow in 1872 he was involved in insurance.↑ Multiplied in thousands.↑ Snow or snow-white!↑ „Upwards hearts” from „look upwards hearts”.↑ „Barscy” – Bar Confederates.↑ As word [became] flesh [and blood] !↑ Like I resurrected! ”

“ P. Rhode, Leipzig, 1865, p. 101.) ↑ Adam Mickiewicz „Oda do młodości”, („Ode to Youth”) verse 12-13, or „Youth, fly above the levels” transl. by Patryk Pawlak; „Youth! Up and over the horizons rise,” transl. ”