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Frost, Robert: A konyha kéménye (The Kitchen Chimney in Hungarian)

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The Kitchen Chimney (English)


Builder, in building the little house,
In every way you may please yourself;
But please please me in the kitchen chimney:
Don't build me a chimney upon a shelf.

However far you must go for bricks,
Whatever they cost a-piece or a pound,
But me enough for a full-length chimney,
And build the chimney clear from the ground.

It's not that I'm greatly afraid of fire,
But I never heard of a house that throve
(And I know of one that didn't thrive)
Where the chimney started above the stove.

And I dread the ominous stain of tar
That there always is on the papered walls,
And the smell of fire drowned in rain
That there always is when the chimney's false.

A shelf's for a clock or vase or picture,
But I don't see why it should have to bear
A chimney that only would serve to remind me
Of castles I used to build in air.



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Source of the quotationhttps://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/robert-frost/the-kitchen-chimney/

A konyha kéménye (Hungarian)


Pallér, ha e házat falazod,
Tetszésed szerint tegyed ezt;
De a konyhai kéményt, légy szives,
Ne fent, falpolcra emelve kezdd.

Mindegy, mennyi megy tégla rá,
Az ára nem oszt és nem szoroz,
De csináld azt meg rendesen,
És a talajra alapozd.

Nem a tűzvészektől rettegek én,
De nem ismerek házat sikerest
(S egy nem sikeresről is tudok),
Hol a kémény földön állni rest.

S az örök kormot sem szeretem,
Mely ott a tapétafalat szinezi,
Sem azt, hogy füstszag van, ha esik,
Mert a kémény nem az igazi.

A polc könyv, váza alá való,
De mit keres egy kémény alatt?
Csak arra figyelmeztet, hogyan
Építettem légvárakat.



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