Kochanowski, Jan Lament IX http://www.wolnelektury.pl/lektura/laments http://wolnelektury.pl/katalog/lektura/treny-tren-ix/ Prall, Dorothea Kozioł, Paweł Lech, Justyna Niedziałkowska, Marta Fundacja Nowoczesna Polska Renesans Liryka Tren Publikacja zrealizowana w ramach projektu Wolne Lektury (http://wolnelektury.pl). Reprodukcja cyfrowa wykonana przez Bibliotekę Narodową z egzemplarza pochodzącego ze zbiorów BN. Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego. http://wolnelektury.pl/katalog/lektura/laments-lament-ix http://polona.pl/item/333575/1/ Jan Kochanowski, Laments, University of California Press, Berkeley 1920 Domena publiczna - Dorothea Prall xml text text 2014-11-18 enghttp://redakcja.wolnelektury.pl/media/cover/image/13826556164_8717940b09_k.jpg Band of gold, Mark Freeth, CC BY 2.0 http://redakcja.wolnelektury.pl/cover/image/3793 Jan Kochanowski Laments Lament IX Thou shouldst be purchased, Wisdom, for much gold/ If all they say of thee is truly told:/ That thou canst root out from the mind the host/ Of longings and canst change a man almost/ Into an angel whom no grief can sap,/ Who is not prone to fear nor evil hap./ Thou seest all things human as they are ---/ Trifles. Thou bearest in thy breast a star/ Fixèd and tranquil, and dost contemplate/ Death unafraid, still calm, inviolate./ Of riches, one thing thou dost hold the measure:/ Proportion to man's needs --- not gold nor treasure;/ Thy searching eyes have power to behold/ The beggar housed beneath the roof of gold,/ Nor dost thou grudge the poor man fame as blest/ If he but hearken him to thy behest./ Oh, hapless, hapless man am I, who sought/ If I might gain thy thresholds by much thought,/ Cast down from thy last steps after so long,/ But one amid the countless, hopeless throng!