Karel Šelepa (b. 1885).
MUSIC
Lo, a sonata is a flower enchanted,
That from a silver vase in Heaven blooms,
In azure nights, amid deep slumber planted,
When to the sky an opening easement looms.
A prelude is the mystic music played,
By angels 'mid the trees when dusk is nigh,
To those who girt by life and gloom have strayed,
To those, who in the even homewards hie.
Andante is the sweetness of returning
To the dim home, by apple-trees o'erspread;
My mother in her resting-place; soft yearning
From her dead lips and from her brow is shed.
"The Evening of the Soul" (1905).
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1927. The author died in 1970, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 50 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. |