Kochanowski, Jan Lament XI http://www.wolnelektury.pl/lektura/laments http://wolnelektury.pl/katalog/lektura/treny-tren-xi/ 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-xi 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/2437488062_755cab137c_o.jpg dentelle... de fer, sophie & cie, CC BY-SA 2.0 http://redakcja.wolnelektury.pl/cover/image/3797 Jan Kochanowski Laments Lament XI «Virtue is but a trifle!» BrutusMarcus Junius Brutus (85 BC--42 BC) --- Roman polititian, one of the assassinators of Julius Caesar, committed suicide after losing battle of Philippi. said/ In his defeat; nor was he cozenèd./ What man did his own goodness e'er advance/ Or piety preserve from evil chance?/ Some unknown foe confuses men's affairs;/ For good and bad alike it nothing cares./ Where blows its breath, no man can flee away;/ Both false and righteous it hath power to stay./ Yet still we vaunt us of our mighty mind/ In idle arrogance among our kind;/ And still we gaze on heaven and think we see/ The Lord and his all-holy mystery./ Nay, human eyes are all too dull; light dreams/ Amuse and cheat us with what only seems./ Ah, dost thou rob me, Grief, my safeguards spurning,/ Of both my darling and my trust in learning?