Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, translated by Paul Selver

“ Age mars them not, for them no change is wrought;
In azure space, calm, crystal-cold, they flee,
Who would be deathless, solitude has sought.
Silent sonata, 'mid stars' dreary way,
How burden'st thou the soul, that fain would lay
Amid a dream of molten gold, its wings!
As from a dozing cup, where joy makes rife
Hot passion, rather would I drink of life,
Than 'mid vain beams reach deathless lonely things.
"Endymion" (1909) .
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