Modern Czech Poetry/Pasquino on the death of Pope Hadrian VI.
4. PASQUINO NA SMRT PAPEŽE
HADRIANA VI.
Hadrian mrtev? Jehlou probodněte
hned srdce jeho — ať je mrtev zjista.
A že je mrtev, dvakrát, třikrát rcete,
ať možno věřit, že to pravda čistá.
Hadrian mrtev! Kdo jsi ducha ctného,
vstaň, jdi, kam sborem Řím se valí celý,
před dům, kde bydlí lékař zesnulého,
hold vzdáti vlasti osvoboditeli!
PASQUINO ON THE DEATH OF POPE
HADRIAN VI.
Hadrian dead? Then thrust a bodkin straight
Into his heart, that he be dead in sooth;
And on the tidings twice or thrice dilate,
To fix belief that it is sober truth.
Hadrian dead! Rise, honest souls, and go
Where Rome all throngs in one united band,
To his physician's dwelling, to bestow
Homage on him who freed his native land.
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