Mickiewicz, Adam To My Cicerone Zawadzki, Jarek Choromańska, Paulina Fundacja Nowoczesna Polska Romantyzm 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/mickiewicz-to-my-cicerone 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/2384.jpg jørn utzon, architect, zürich theatre, 1964-c.1970, auditorium model, seier+seier@Flickr, CC BY 2.0 http://redakcja.wolnelektury.pl/cover/image/2384 DCA 1DTP 3MN Adam Mickiewicz To My CiceroneA tourist guide in Italy (pronounced: cheecherony). My Cicerone, on this monument/ A name protrudes obscured by time and gloam,Twilight./ Engraved by a man to mark his stay in Rome./ I must needs know that traveler's intent. Perhaps he will be welcomed at the inns/ By joyful cries, perhaps the speechless sand/ Will hide his acts of kindness and the sins/ Which we shall never know nor understand. I have to know what then he felt and thought/ When in this stony book of Italy,/ Instead of a phrase his name he merely wrought,/ Of all his life the only trace to be. Did he with a trembling hand engrave it here,/ As if a tombstone in a steadfast rock,/ Or rashly cut the words upon this block/ As if a sad and lonely good-bye tear? My Cicerone! Childish is thy face,/ But ancient wisdom o'er thy forehead shines,/ Through Roman gates I followed thee apace,/ Thou wast my guarding angel in the shrines. Oh, Thou canst even look through a heart of stone,/ When thou but glancest at its stubborn shell,/ From a single word the past to thee is known,/ Perhaps thou know'st the pilgrim's fate to tell.