An Anthology of Czechoslovak Literature/To-day a Wondrous Girdle

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To My Mother

An Anthology of Czechoslovak Literature (1929)
translated by Paul Selver

To-day a Wondrous Girdle by Adolf Heyduk

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ADOLF HEYDUK

1835–1923

To-day a Wondrous Girdle

TMy sweetheart gave to me: O-DAY a wondrous girdle
My sweetheart gave to me:
Erst with gold this girdle
Was woven fair to see.

Whilom was this girdle
The Queen of Hungary’s gear,
The Queen of Hungary’s gear,
And now I am her peer.

Once ’twas the Queen’s,—’tis now the
Gypsy—girl’s array.
At holy feasts she wore it;
I wear it every day.

Gypsy Melodies (1859)

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