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Hanuman:
A POEM.
Translated, in the original meter, from the Bohemian of
Svatopluk Cech.Sestri Levante, Feb. 1893.
I.
Like a desert prophet sighed I
For some fairy dreams elysian.
Rarach came meanwhile, the tempter,
Hopped into my cave, derision
In his eyes, and fluttered round me;
Straddlewise my nose bespanned,
Like a Cupid his pagoda,
With the lotus in his hand
Waved the wonder-working floweret,
Lo! a thousand imps and nixies,
Pucks and gnomes and winged goblins,
Fairies, elfin wisps and pixies
O’er the mussels swarmed in countless
Hosts, and lusty carols sung
In the crystal sea’s recesses,
And their tinkling handbells rung.
