"I SEE YOUR LETTER"

by Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky (1833-1875)
   Translated by Jirina Fuchsova

I see your letter, oh so dear!
in a book safely folded.
And I hear, somewhere very near,
your heart's voice, uncorroded...

You sweetly promise that you will
forever mine be only...
That two of us shall meet once more,
never again be lonely.

And then I saw you, once again,
and knew the world, its changes...
All that was left to me - a stained
letter in old book's pages.

   (English Translation Copyright C 2001 by
    Jirina Fuchsova)

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