Przerwa-Tetmajer, Kazimierz The End of the 19th Century Zawadzki, Jarek Choromańska, Paulina Fundacja Nowoczesna Polska Modernizm 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/przerwa-tetmajer-the-end-of-the-19th-century 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/2389.jpg dead leaves dirty ground, j thorn explains it all@Flickr, CC BY 2.0 http://redakcja.wolnelektury.pl/cover/image/2389 DCA 1DTP 3MN Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer The End of the 19th Century A curse?... But only savages in pain/ abuse their god that's hiding in the air./ An irony?... but how can you compare/ most dreadful scorns with every day's disdain? Contempt?... but only fools despise the weight/ that is too heavy for their feeble arms./ Despair?... so hearing danger's grim alarms/ just like a scorpion we end our fate? Struggle?... but how an ant succeed in strife/ when thrust upon a rail before the train?/ Resignation?... but can there be less pain/ when we acquiesce to the butcher's knife? The future life?... The stars who can explore,/ and who can guess the ending of the world?/ Joy?... but at the bottom of our souls lie furled,/ those thoughts that mid enjoyment cry for more. So what is left? In all the faiths of yore/ we find no comfort. Things for us are clear./ What is your shield against the evil's spear,/ man of the fin-de-siècle?... He spoke no more.