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Yeats, William Butler: A lég seregei (The Host of the Air in Hungarian)

Portre of Yeats, William Butler

The Host of the Air (English)

O'DRISCOLL drove with a song
The wild duck and the drake
From the tall and the tufted reeds
Of the drear Hart Lake.

And he saw how the reeds grew dark
At the coming of night-tide,
And dreamed of the long dim hair
Of Bridget his bride.

He heard while he sang and dreamed
A piper piping away,
And never was piping so sad,
And never was piping so gay.

And he saw young men and young girls
Who danced on a level place,
And Bridget his bride among them,
With a sad and a gay face.

The dancers crowded about him
And many a sweet thing said,
And a young man brought him red wine
And a young girl white bread.

But Bridget drew him by the sleeve
Away from the merry bands,
To old men playing at cards
With a twinkling of ancient hands.

The bread and the wine had a doom,
For these were the host of the air;
He sat and played in a dream
Of her long dim hair.

He played with the merry old men
And thought not of evil chance,
Until one bore Bridget his bride
Away from the merry dance.

He bore her away in his atms,
The handsomest young man there,
And his neck and his breast and his arms
Were drowned in her long dim hair.

O'Driscoll scattered the cards
And out of his dream awoke:
Old men and young men and young girls
Were gone like a drifting smoke;

But he heard high up in the air
A piper piping away,
And never was piping so sad,
And never was piping so gay. 



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A lég seregei (Hungarian)

O’Driscoll dala zavart fel
Gácsért és vadkacsát,
Hol magas nád szegélyezte
A bús Szarvas Tavát.

És látta, hogy lett sötét a nád
Amikor este lett,
S álmában látta fakó haját
Párjának, Bridgetnek.

Álmodott, dalolt s egy dudás
Nótát fújt a dudán,
Duda nem szólt még ily búsan
És nem is volt ily vidám.

Látott ifjakat s lányokat
A réten táncuk járták,
S Bridget is ott volt közöttük,
Arcán bú s vidámság.

Körbeállták a táncosok
S beszéltek sok édeset,
Egy ifjú vörösbort hozott
S egy lányka kenyeret.

De a mulatozók közül
Bridget elrángatta őt,
Üljön inkább fénylő kezű,
Vén kártyások között.

A kenyér s bor végzetet hozott,
Mert ők a lég seregei;
Csak ült, s álmában a hajával
Játszadoztak ujjai.

Játszott a vidám vénekkel,
S nem gondolt semmi rosszra,
Mígnem egy ifjú Bridgetet,
A táncból elragadta.

Felkapta a legszebb ifjú
A leányt a karjaiba,
Nyakát, mellét és a karját
Fakó haja takarta.

O’Driscoll akkor a kártyát
Eldobta és felébredt:
Minden vén és férfi s leány
Akár a füst – elszéledt.

De hallotta, hogy fent egy dudás
nótát fújt a dudán,
duda nem szólt még ily búsan
és nem is volt ily vidám.



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