Lasta Kiso

Lasta Kiso / The Last Kiss  (1912)  by Edmond Privat, translated by Wikisource

Literal English Translation	Original Esperanto	Line
Last Kiss You fly where, butterfly,   Trembling and quickly? By now the rose and lily lie dead   and the treacherous frost comes. Your wing as if a lamp   Shines in the fog. You seek for whom, through the fog,   A lost person of summer? The garden is a desert,   Through which roamed your love Skeletons seem like true comings   Under an oak without leaves You fly why, in the cold   Through flowers in the graveyard? On all places raining tears   Now rest in the grassland. All are silent in the nests   And pleasant smells disappear. Already you give up the battle with evening   About the blossoms' hearts. Behold resting only in a vast field   Wilted chrysanthemums. On which your last kiss   Will kill you with tremors.	Lasta Kiso Vi kien flugas, papilio,   Tremante kaj rapide? Jam mortis rozo kaj lilio   Kaj venas frost' perfide. Flugilo viaj kvazaŭ lampo   Briletas en nebulo. Vi kion serĉas tra la kampo,   Perdita somerulo? Dezertaj estas la ĝardenoj,   Tra kiuj vagis amo via. Skeletoj ŝajnas la vervenoj   Sub kverko senfolia. Vi kial flugas en malvarmo   Tra floro la tombejo? Sur ĉiu loko pluva larmo   Nun restas en herbejo. Silentas ĉiuj en la nestoj   Kaj svenis bonodoroj Jam ne batalos vi kun vespoj   Pri la floretaj koroj. Jen restas nur en kampo vasta   Velkinta krizantemo Sur kiu kiso via lasta   Mortigos vin en tremo.	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

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