Kochanowski, Jan God's Plaything Man Zawadzki, Jarek Choromańska, Paulina Fundacja Nowoczesna Polska Renesans Liryka Wiersz Publikacja zrealizowana w ramach projektu Wolne Lektury (http://wolnelektury.pl). Materiał źródłowy pobrany ze strony http://archive.org/details/PolishPoetryInEnglish. http://wolnelektury.pl/katalog/lektura/kochanowski-gods-plaything-man http://archive.org/details/PolishPoetryInEnglish Polish Poetry in English, tłum. Jarek Zawadzki [online], [dostęp: 04.03.2013]. Dostępny WWW: http://archive.org/details/PolishPoetryInEnglish. Creative Commons Uznanie Autorstwa - Na Tych Samych Warunkach 3.0.PL http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ xml text text 2013-03-05 enghttp://redakcja.wolnelektury.pl/media/dynamic/cover/image/2395.jpg Tree trunk, Rookuzz@Flickr, CC BY 2.0 http://redakcja.wolnelektury.pl/cover/image/2395 DCA 1DTP 3MD Jan Kochanowski God's Plaything Man No truer words were ever spoken than/ A plaything of our Lord to call a man./ For is there anything a man has tried/ That God's in no position to deride?/ He's seen no God, but still he is so proud/ That a god-like one he calls himself aloud./ His senses all with selfish love gone blind,/ He thinks the world for him alone designed./ He'd been before he was; when he's not there,/ He shall remain. Oh, fools are everywhere.