Walled-up Windows
Jiří Karásek: In memoriam
That soft, damp hair of yours, my friend,
Rots slowly in a foul grave
Your funeral shroud, all cracked and fetid.
Does your rotting body enslave.
That body, once so full of vehemence,
Those eyes, good as your dreaming soul,
That hair that once had vivid fragrance,
Are now decaying in a hole.
And it seems to me that in my body
That same vile worm is burrowing a path,
dressing me in Death’s decaying shroud,
and that my hair, dear friend, like yours,
is slowly rotting in a foul grave.
| Subject: | Others |
| Author: | Karásek, Jiří |
| Title: | Walled-up Windows |
| Date: | 1894 |
| Place of publication: | Velké Meziříčí |
| Publisher: | Nakladatelství Šaška a Frgala |
| Origin: | fond svozy |
| Licence: | Free license |
