The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 4/Number 7/Stefanik
Stefanik
At home his dreaming eye,
It was as if he would there read
His own fate in the sky.
To journey far he dares—
I’m going to seek my star, he says,
And searches in the stars.
Nor Lyre nor the Cross—
“Where is the star of mine?’ he thinks
And prying on he goes.
The world in fire lies;
But through the gloom and doom he sees
A great new star arise.
This is my star,” he cried,
And with a strong voice he calls his boys:
“To arms on my side!”
As the billows on the sea,
Yes, on his country shines at last
The Star of Liberty!
And flew in a wingéd car—
From heights he embraced his country dear
And fell down as a star.
Antonín Klášterský is one of foremost of the younger Bohemian poets He has made available John Hay, William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, Joaquin Miller, and many others to the Czechs and Slovaks. This poem “Štefanik”, Mr. Klášterský himself translated into the English.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1920, before the cutoff of January 1, 1930.
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