An Anthology of Czechoslovak Literature/Stanzas

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Stanzas

FIRST the whole universe avails us not
But then our every yearning pang declines
In a cool alcove’s single shadowy spot.

Above our heads the sun in radiance shines,
Yet we fear seeing it, as birds that fled
Safe from the tempest to a clump of pines

And in their gladness no more songs have shed.
On the Journey to Eldorado (1882)

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