An Anthology of Czechoslovak Literature/Solitude
IVAN KRASKO
(b. 1876) (Slovak)
Solitude
Accept with loving-kindness my mournful prayer.
Thou who art great, being God of the puny,
Oh, at Thy feet, behold Thy puniest one,
How with mute gaze he doth lament to Thee
Unbounded greatness of his evil plight.
Unworthy he cowers in the dust of earth below.
See, paltry and pitiful amid all living creatures:
That ne’er hath laid a dove upon Thine altar,
Nor salved with balm the wounds of the afflicted
And ne’er rang chimes of a festive Resurrexit,
O Thou, God of the poor and the debased.
Nox et Solitudo (1909)
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