Rapid method of Neo

These home-made cakes are excellent indeed.

What sorts of ice-cream have you to-day ?

At what time do you open in the morning ? I should like to come tomorrow early.

We open towards nine o’clock.

Mi dezur i an un tranco limon.

Pli, asportu et almondkekos e me diu som coklatpastenos e merengos.

Et dompastenos vere exela.

Kasorta glazelos ar vu oje ?

Kaore aprar vu matine ? Mi vur veni kras fru.

Nos aprar ver non.

TRAIN TRAVEL

alarm-bell alarmil

arrival ariv to arrive arivi available (valid) vala, -ida (window’s)

blind stor bar, barman bar, barman barrow carel berth kushuyo to book (reserve) rizervi booking-office- window rizervazo-fensel to break (a journey) interompi (un travel) bookstall librio, libraro clock oril coach кос, vetur, wagon to change

(trains) kambi to change (money) kambyi, kambi change (noun)

kambo change (of money) kambyo chauffeur

driver, shofor communication cord alarmil compartment

komparto connection konex corner uk corridor koridor

customs dogan customs (duty)

daso to declare dekli declaration deklo

nothing to declare ? nilo deklenda ? door pordo dining-car mensocar elevator lift engine (train’s)

lokomotiv engine-driver mekaner, tren-driver to enter ini,entri entrance entro excess luggage

bag-surpezo exchange skam-bo

to exchange

skambi extra-fare surpresyel fare presyel fast train rapida (tren) to get in monti to get out shendi guard (officer)

trenaldo hand-luggage

manbagos handbag borsel hat box capeluyo heavy luggage

grosbagio Ladies only nur

Damos lavatory tualet, lavabo.lavator label lablo light luggage

let bagio luggage bagio,

bagos luggage ticket

bag-tikel left-luggage- office bagaro

luggage-train

merkos-tren overweight

surpezo package, parcel

рак

passenger pasajer

pillow kusen platform (station’s) peron porter porter to punch (a

ticket) punsi rack, net rish rail ralyo (firveo) railway firveo to reach atangi;

arivi receipt rico receipt ticket

ricel to receive rici registration bukazo to register buki,

registri refreshment-room bufet reservation rizervazo reserve rizervo reserved rizervat

to reserve rizervi, prenoti rug koprel seat plas to send (off)

sendi, spedi to smoke fumi smoker fumer smoking not allowed vetat fumi small trunk

trunket sleeping-car sliping, bed-wagon slow train omnibus to stamp tampi,

stampi lo start starti,

ensi, departi station stasyon station master

stasyonaldo steam vap, vapor

stoker varmader -adil stop fermo lo stop fermi subway sub-pa- so

suitcase valiz telegraph office

telegrafo telegram telgo telephone fon to telephone foni terminus ter-min, terminus ticket tikel ticket-collector

kontroler ticket-window

(tikel-)fensel through train

rexa (tren) time-table

oruyo trunk trunk way in entro way out exado,

exiro van furgon to weigh pezi weight pezo wailing-room

atendaro window fenso

(fensel) to wire telgi,

kabli refreshment-bar bevaret

Does the London train start from this platform ?

How long is it till the train starts ?

Do you know if heavy luggage comes on this train ?

What time do we get to London ?

Have I time to go to the refreshment-bar ?

Here is the number of my seat.

Try and get a corner, next to the window; next to the corridor.

We have three reserved seats.

This is a through train, isn’t it ?

My wife has a seat in the compartment for Ladies only.

Put this suitcase on the rack, please.

Wait! I haven’t given you your tip.

I’d like to buy a paper at the bookstall.

Can one find rugs and pillows for the night ?

When does the dining-car open ?

I had rather dine with the second service.

It is rather cool. There is a draught.

May I raise (open) the window ?

It is too cold; will you allow me to lower the window ?

Do you mind if I turn on (turn off) the heat ?

Please, do as you like.

Do you think I may smoke here ?

CUSTOMS

I am afraid it is forbidden to smoke here.

Where is luggage examined ?

Where have I to go ?

You only stay here : the customs officer is coming.

Do you want me to open my trunk ?

Have you anything to declare ?

I have nothing : neither tobacco, nor cigarettes, nor matches.

But I have a bottle of French liqueur; how much duty have I to pay ?

One single bottle is duty free.

Have you any new clothing ?

No, I have already worn everything I have here.

All that is for my own use.

I cannot open this lock.

I don’t know where I have put my keys.

Have you had your pasport stamped ?

Cu lo London-tren departar da et peron ?

Fra kan departar lo tren ?

Cu vu spar es et tren prenar gros bagio ?

Kaore arivar nos Londonye ?

Ar mi tempo po gi al bevaret ?

Em lo num de ma plas.

Tralu preni un uk, nir lo fenso; nir lo koridor.

Nos ar tre rizervat plasos.

Sar un tren rexa, cu no ?

Ma fem ar un plas nel komparto Damos sola.

Ponu et valiz nel rish, pli.

Atendu! Mi no ve dir va tipyo.

Mi vur kofi un jornal nel librio.

Par so tri koprelos e kusenos pol nox ?

Van aprar lo mensocar ?

Mi prifur pransi jel dua sirvo.

Far frisketa. Ye erkorent.

Par mi levi (apri) lo fenso ?

Far tro friga; me permar vu basi lo fenso ?

Cu ve disturbar mi apru (klozu) lo varmazo ?

Pli, fiu as vu var.

Krar vu, mi par fumi ik ?

DOGAN

Mi timar ik fumi vetat.

Vo lo bag-vizit ? Qo shar mi ?

Restu nur ik : lo doganer venar.

Dezar vu mi apru ma trunk ?

Ar vu somo deklenda ?

Mi ar nilo : nor tabak, sigaretos о

alumilos. Mo mi ar un botel fransa liqor; ka daso mi pagenda ?

Un sol botel das-exenta. Ar vu kel nuv vestos ? No, mi ja werir to ki sar ik.

Toeto po ma persona uto.

Mi no par apri et klel.

Mi no spar vo mi tir ma klilos.

Cu va pasport ja tampat (vistat) ?

BY CAR (BY COACH)

accelerator

axeleril accident axident

accumulator

akumulil to advance

vansi to back baki, ri-kuli

battery baterio bend tornot

benzine benzin to blow up gonfi bolt bulon bonnet kapoco box kofro, baguyo brake fren; to -

freni breakdown

panko bridge pont bumper urtevil to burst klati,

krepi carburettor

karburil chassis framon chauffeur driver

coach кос, kar crossroads kru-zal

to disconnect

dikonexi ditch foson to drive drivi,

duki diversion divego driving-mirror

rirvidil dynamo dinamel

ilrst-aid station sokorsaro flat glata gear-box vitobux

four-seater qarplasa garage garajo gas, gasoline

benzin headlight fa-ryo

hill montel, ber-gel

ignition acendo to inflate gonfi inner tube erinil jack krik junction biforko, bivyo to light up acen-di

lighting lum,

lumazo to leak liki leak lik, fugot level crossing

nivpaso lorry kamyon magnetomagne-til

map map milepost borno to misflre raspeli

monkey—

wrench klilen motorist auter nut vision ‘ oil olyo to overtake depasi

no overtaking

depas-veto patch ramendo parking parkazo, parking no parking

parkveto pedestrian pedirer petrol petrol,

benzin piston piston puncture krep to puncture krepi

radiator radii rear-axle riraxon rim janto road rut to reverse ririgi saloon-car ina—

driv screw vislo screw-driver

vislil signpost vegil sidelights pozolum

silencer silil six-seater sitplasa to skid derapi skidding derap to slow down

lenti spare part ripyes spark funko spring sorko sparking-plug

funkel starter diormil steering-gear

derkil steering-wheel

dukil no thoroughfare pasoveto to turn torni,

volvi tyre gumon; spare - rigumon; wheel rot; spare wheel rirot windscreen

brezevil axle axon no through road nopasa, pasoveto

Which is the shortest way to London ?

Which way do you go to Brussels ?

Where do you wish to go ?

Am I on the right way to Nice ?

Is it a major road ?

How far am I from Boston ?

Are there many bends ? many hills ?

What is the speed-limit on this road ?

Is there a road where I could drive faster ?

Have you a highway code with the traffic signs ?

Will you check my driving licence and insurance policy ?

Is the traffic often held up on this road ?

Is there a good garage anywhere near ?

Can I leave my car in your garage for a few hours ? for the night ?

Would you wash it for me ?

I’m not leaving until tomorrow; could you service it between now and then ?

Fill it up with petrol and lubricate it thoroughly.

Give a look at my battery. It may want recharging. Top it up with water.

Ka lo kurtesta veo po London ?

Voe Bruxel ?

Qo dezar vu ?

Sar mi ol justa veo po Nis ?

Sar it un princa rut ?

Kan dus mi da Boston ?

Sar ye mul tornotos ? mul mon-tenos ?

Ka lo vitlimit in et rut ?

Sar ye un rut vo mi pur gi plu vit ?

Ar vu un rutkod kol ruta segnos ?

Var vu verifiki ma drivpermo e sekurpolisyo ?

Sar lo cirkul of fermat in et rut ?

Sar ye un bon garajo nir ik ?

Par mi li ma кос in va garajo dun рок oros ? dun nox ?

Vur vu me it lavi ?

Mi no departar us krasmatin; pur vu it rividi inye ?

Fiu plenbenzin e grasu plene.

Okadu lo baterio. It forse nesar rekargo. Adu an aqo.

My tyres want inflating. This one Ma gumonos nesar gonfo. Etun fas

is almost flat. glata.

The lighting isn’t working very Lo lumazo no funsar muy ben.

well. Overhaul all the wiring. Verifiku tot filos.

This headlight doesn’t give much Et faryo no klarar ben. Forse l’am—

light. The bulb wants changing pol kambenda. perhaps.

The windscreen is not very clean. Lo brezevil no muy neta. Pli it

Please clean it. netu.

The windscreen wiper is working Lo sekivitrel funsar male. Mi vur

badly. I should like you to set it vu it riparu. right.

My silencer is too noisy. See what Lo silil tro ruma. Miru ke vu par

you can make of it. ye fi.

My car is not road-worthy. I must Ma кос no rutstanda. Mi shar it li

leave it here for a thorough ik po kompleta verifik. overhaul.

The radiator looks as if it leaked. Lo radii parar liki.

The motor gets hot; knocks; Lo motor varmijar; urtar ; raspelar. misfires.

The steering gear is out of truth. Lo derkil malfunsar.

There is a door that jams. Ye un pordo fixacat.

I want a new inner tube; but the Mi nesar un nuv erinil; mo lo

outer cover can still serve. gumon nok utibla.

Have you spare parts for this car ? Ar vu ripyesos po et кос ?

My car is broken down; has run Ma кос panka; it benzinpanka;

dry ; has engine trouble ; ignition it ar motorturbo ; acendoturbo. trouble.

Gould you lend me a hand ? Pur vu me manelpi ?

Gould you let me have a can of Pur vu me di un bidon benzin, ut

petrol, so that I can get to the mi par gi us lo nar pomp ? nearest pump ?

I’ve just burst a tyre. Could you Mi ju krepir un gumon. Pur vu me

help me to jack up ? elpi ti lo krik ?

I cannot get this wheel off. I have Mi no par demonti et rot. Mi oblir

forgotten my jack. ma krik.

Will you help me to put the spare Var vu m’elpi plasi lo rirot ? wheel on ?

Would you mind helping me to Benvur vu m’elpi pushi ma кос

push my car on the roadside ? rutelte ?

If you go past that garage, would Es vu pasar ante yen garajo, var

you please ask them to come and vu ze aski veni me dipanki ? help me out ?

Let them send a good mechanic, Zi sendu un bon mekaner, no un

not a young apprentice. aprentist.

AN ACCIDENT

We have just had an accident.

This gentleman was not keeping to the left.

He took the turn without sounding his horn.

He tried to overtake round that turn.

I swerved to avoid him.

I ran into that signpost.

I nearly ran over this pedestrian.

My wing is damaged, and my bumper is flattened.

His headlights dazzled me.

He did not dip them when he saw me coming.

The surface was slippery, and I skidded when I tried to brake.

This gentleman ran into the crossroads when I was well in.

UN AXIDENT

Nos ju ir un axident. Et siro no drivir linke.

II prenir lo tornot sen klaxoni.

II tentir me depasi nel tornot.

Mi ekartir ut le evi.

Mi urtir et borno.

Mi fas riversir et pedirer.

Ma alo lezat e ma urtevil glatat

La faryos me eblir.

II no ze basir me vidande veni.

Lo suol sir glita e mi derapir tralan—

de freni. Et siro indrivir nel bivyo van mi ja ye.

I had priority.

He was driving recklessly.

I put on my brakes, but I could not stop in time.

There are several witnesses of the accident.

I have a third-party insurance.

Here are my papers and my policy. Everything is in order.

I will write you down my name and address and the name of the Insurance Company.

I will report the accident to the nearest police-station, and give them all useful information.

Don’t forget to take down the numbers of the two cars.

Mi ir pricaneso.

II drivir otrevite.

Mi frenir, mon no pir fermi in temp.

Ye plul testos del axident.

Mi sekurat ver tersyunos.

Em ma papelos e polisyo. To orda.

Mi ve skribor ma nam e adres e lo nam del Sekur-Kompanio.

Mi segnalor l’axident al nara polisaro e dor ye tot utila informos.

No oblu noti lo numbos del du kocos.

AT THE HOTEL

air-conditioned

erka air-condition- in fj (air-co) erko armchair polto attendance sir-vo

balcony balkon bar, barman bar, barman basin kuvet bath, bathroom bad, badkam (to take a) bath

badi bed bed bedroom bed-kam

single bed singlabed double bed diplabed single-bedded room unbeda kam double-bedded room dubeda kam bedside-rug

shendibed bedside-table

noxoyo bell sonil blanket koprel bill kont board pensyon full board plcn—

pensyon carpet tapes cashier kaser

central heating

centravarmo chambermaid

kamerin chair sidil chimney kamen chest of drawers komodel curtain kurten cushion kusen damp umida door pordo door-keeper

usher draught erkorent drawer buxel dra wi ng-room

salon dining-room

pransaro dressing-table

tualetoyo electric elektra (electric) bulb (elektra) am-pol floor etago lire fok (electric) flex

(elektra) fil gas gas gas-heating

gasvarmo hall hal head waiter

sirvaldo, aldo key klil lamp lamp; (reading) - bedlamp, lektolamp

lamp-shade abajur lavatory lavator light lum to light lumi,

alumi, acendi lock klel to lock klili lift lift lift attendant

lifter looking-glass

spek management

derko manager derker match (lucifer)

alumil mattress matraso (spring-)mattress bedenko mirror spek to open apri pedestal table

tablol pillow kusen pillow-slip umel (door) porter

portyer (luggage) porter porter to put out (the

light) speni quiet tranqila,

qeta quilt (eiderdown) edrelen reading-room

lektaro to ring (the bell) sonili

seat sidoyo, sid, sidil

(bed) sheet bedel

shelf planken short-circuit

kurt-cirqit shower-bath

dush to shut klozi smoking-room

fumaro soap sapon sofa sofa, kanapel stairs skal staircase skalkajo switch komutil (stairs) step

graden table tablo table-cloth nap tap robinet time-switch

minutal towel shugil ventilator era-dil

waiter garson,

kamer wall mur wardrobe klozoyo wash-basin lavabo water aqo, ak window fenso wire fil, firfil, ka-blo

to wire kabli, telgi

Will you please have my luggage Benvar vu fi dikargi ma bagio ? unloaded ?

Show me to the office, please.

Have you any rooms vacant ?

I should like a single-bedded room ; a double-bedded room; a room with a double bed.

Have you any with a bathroom ?

Does the charge for the room entitle one to use the bathroom ?

If I use the bathroom on this floor, do you make an extra charge ?

How much do you charge for a hot bath? A shilling?

I always take a cold bath. That will cost me six pence, I suppose ?

Can one have a fire in one’s bedroom ?

Of course, there will be an extra charge.

Are there any formalities to go

through with the police ?

Must one have an identity-card ?

Only if one stays beyond fifty-six days.

In that case, my passport will be enough.

I had ratherjhavea room looking onto the street; a room at the back.

I don’t like to be higher than the second floor.

I require two rooms next to each other.

Do the rooms open into each other ?

What price are your rooms on the first floor ?

Is attendance included ?

Is there a telephone in the room ?

How much do you charge for full board ?

How much for a week ?

Do you reduce your charges for a long stay ?

Haven’t you anything better ? cheaper ?

I intend to stay a week at least.

What price are meals ?

I shall take breakfast only here.

I shall take my meals outside.

Your charges suit me.

Will you please have this room shown me ?

I should like to see the drawing-room and dining-room as well.

Please take me to the lift.

AIR TRAVEL

Where is the air-terminal, please ?

Which is the coach for the airport ?

At what time does it start ?

How long does it take to reach the aerodrome ?

Where are the formalities, prior to the take-off completed ?

My passport has already been examined by the Immigration Officer.

Me duku al ricevo, pli. Ar vu kamos frida ? Mi vur i un kam unbeda; dubeda; un kam kon dipla bed.

Ar vu un kon bad ? Cu lo kam-presyo insar badkam-uto ?

Taxar vu adpago es mi utar l’etaga

badkam ? Kan taxar vu un bad ? Un shiling ?

Mi sem prenar friga bad. Kostor

sendube sit pencos ? Par so i fok kamye ?

Certe, ye sor adpago.

Cu formalos kumpenda po polis ?

Shar so i idento-kart ?

Nur es so star otre qinissit idos.

Yenkaze, ma pasport sufor.

Mi prifur un kam ver veo; ver kortel.

Mi no libar sti obire qam dua etago.

Mi nesar du kamos kontiguas.

Cu lo kamos komunikar ? Kan kostar va prim-etaga kamos ?

Cu sirvo insa ? Cu fon kamye ?

Kan askar vu po plen-pensyon ? Kan pro vek ?

Far vu def po longira sojorno ?

Ar vu nilo mela ? plu cipa ?

Mi intentar resti pomine un vek. Ka lo mensos-presyos ? Mi prenor ik nur dijun. Mi prenor ma mensos exe. Va presyos me konvenar. Var vu me montri et kam, pli ?

Mi dezur vidi an lo salon e lo pransaro.

Pli me duku al lift.

ER-TRAVEL

Vo l’erodrom, pli ? Ka lo vetur pol erodrom ? Kaore departar it ? Kan durar us l’erodrom ?

Vo lokedar predepart-formalos ?

Ma pasport ja vistat pel Imigro-funser.

Here is my ticket.

I have already had my baggage weighed and registered. Here is the check.

How long is it till we go to the embarkation point ?

Please give me a seat near a window.

I should like to be able to look out.

Is the plane about to take off ?

Please be so kind as to help me fasten on my safety-belt.

Doesn’t that light mean one cannot smoke yet ?

How shall I know when the plane has reached its cruising-height ?

May I take my belt off now ?

Are we allowed to move about in the plane now ?

Will you please ask the airhostess

if she can bring me something to drink ?

Thank you for having brought me my meal-tray.

I never suffer from air-sickness.

There is no need to ?ive me that paper bag.

Is it time to put the belt on again ?

We are going to land.

The plane is taxiing.

Where have we to go to claim our luggage, please ?

Em ma tikel.

Ma bagio ja pezat e bukat. Em lo ricel.

Kan durar us nos nel imbarkaro ?

Pli me diu un plas nir fenso. Mu vur pi miri ver exo.

Cu l’iv ju abteror ?

Pli benvu m’elpi fixi ma sekurbelt.

Cu no mindar et lum so par nonok fumi ?

Kom spor mi van l’iv atangar sa kruziralto ?

Par mi nun diataci ma belt ?

Cu ne permat cirkuli ivye nun ?

Var vu pli aski l’erospin es el par m’aporti somo bevenda ?

Dank po me aportinde ma platal.

Mi ni sofrar pe eregro. No nesa me di papelsak.

Cu tempo reaponi lo belt ?

Nos ju ateror.

L’iv rular ol suol.

Pli, qo ut ritiri bagio ?

SHOPPING

Would you like to go shopping in the big Western Stores ?

Those shops must be very expensive. They have very rich customers. I should like to have the address of some less expensive places - but still first class ones.

Are there often clearance sales in the big stores ?

When is their stock-taking ?

I think there is a stock-taking sale at X’s.

Are there good bargains to be picked up ?

Is that shop selling off ?

Do they sell retail ?

Do you sell on the instalment system, or only cash down ?

You never sell on credit ?

Gan you send me this on approval ?

I should like to speak to the head of the department.

Would you mind telling me where the perfumery department is ?

Which way is the lift ? the escalator ? the stairs ?

The way out, please!

Libur vu fi kofelos nel gran Westa shoponos ?

Yen shopos shar si tro shira. Zi ar rikega kundos. Mi vur i l’adres de som shopos min shira - mo dok primorda.

Cu of saldos nel shoponos ?

Van far zi inventor ? Mi krar ye un inventor-vendo she X…

Cu ye okazyonos kolgibla ?

Cu et shop liqidar ? Cu zi vendar detale ? Vendar vu rate о nur kase ?

Vendar vu ni kredite ?

Par vu me sendi eto kondise ?

Mi vur parli al ripart-aldo.

Benvur vu m’indiki lo parfum-ripart ?

Voe lo lift ? l’eskalator ? lo skal ? L’exado, pli!

I don’t see an assistant; can you find me one ?

Are you engaged ? Can you attend to me ?

No one is attending to me, and I have been waiting for ten minutes.

I am going to complain to the management. There is no getting service here.

I should like you to show me…

What have you got in the line of…

What is the price of this ?

What are you selling this at ?

Have you nothing better ? cheaper ? smarter ? stronger ? larger ? smaller ?

Show me the best you have.

If you haven’t got it in stock, can you have it sent for ? get it for me ?

How long will it take to get it ?

You say you are out of it ? have sold out ? do not stock it now ?

How is that ?

I am not satisfied with this article. Can you take it back ? exchange it ?

I bought it two days ago, and I have never used it. Just look at the ticket.

Why don’t you mark your goods in plain figures ?

Is that your lowest price ?

Have I to make a deposit if I give you an order ?

Make it up into a parcel.

I cannot take it with me. Can you have it delivered ?

Have it delivered at this address.

When can you have it sent on ?

I will pay on delivery.

I prefer to pay now/

Make me out a bill.

Please receipt it.

Can you forward it carriage paid ? carriage forward ?

Send it by slow (fast) goods train.

What does it all add up to ?

I am going to the cash-desk, if you will come with me.

Are you open on Sundays ?

What day do you close on ?

What time do you close ?

Do you stay open at lunch-time ?

AT THE STATIONER’S AT THE BOOKSELLER’S

Come along with me to the bookseller’s. I want to buy a few novels.

I need a good dictionary as well. I shall be glad of your opinion. What are the latest things out ?

Mi vidar nil vender; pur vu me tri un ?

Cu vu okupat ? Par vu me sirvi ?

Nilun me sirvar, e mi atendar dep is minutos.

Mi gor riklami al derko. Nil sirvo ik.

Mi vur vu me montru…

Ke ar vu in mat de…

Ka lo presyo d’eto ?

Kapresye vendar vu eto ?

Ar vu nilo bonira ? cipira ? plu eleganta ? plu solida ? granira ? letira ?

Me montru lo melesta vu ar.

Es vu no ar it stokye, par vu m’it sendi ? m’it prokuri ?

Fra kan or vu it ?

Yu dicar vu sen it ? Vu estingir it ? vu noplue stokar it ?

Kur eto ?

Mi no satisfat kon et artiklo. Par vu it repreni ? it skambi ?

Mi kofir it yo du idos e ni utir it. Miru lo lablo!

Kur no markar vu va merkos in presyos klara ?

Cu eto va last presyo ?

Shar mi versi un akont es mi ordenar ?

Pli fiu un рак.

Mi no pat it kunpreni. Par vu it livri ?

Livru it a et adres.

Van par vi it livri ?

Mi pagor livre.

Mi prifar pagi nun.

Me flu un faktur.

Pli qitansu it.

Par vu it spedi franko ? port debat ?

Sendu it letvite (granvite).

Kan sumar it ?

Mi gar al kaso, es vu var m’akompani.

Aprar vu dominke ?

Ka va klozo-id ?

Kaore klozar vu ?

Restar vu apra lunc-ore ?

SHEL PAPELER SHEL LIBRER

Venu kon mi shel librer. Mi var kofi som romansos.

Mi nesar an un bon dixonar. Mi sor glada i va opin. Ко laste parsat ?

Is this book really interesting ? Is it worth reading ?

Have you… ? It is just out.

I don’t know who published it.

Will you find out and try to get it for me ?

I am going to see the new play. Have you the book ?

I should like to take out a subscription to this review. Do you take subscriptions ?

Have it sent to this address.

I am starting on a journey. I should like some light reading for the train.

What do you advise ?

I see you have a fine edition there of …‘s plays. Is it new or secondhand ?

Where could I get that secondhand ?

I want some note-paper. I always take white.

This is not good enough quality. Show me something better.

This is the best you have ?

Give me a larger size.

Have you envelopes to match ?

I have left my fountain-pen behind. Have you any cheap ones ?

Have you any refills for this pencil-case ?

I should like to see some picture postcards of London.

These are really good. They are very clear.

How much are they a piece ? a dozen ?

I don’t like coloured cards.

This pen is not self-filling. I want a filler.

The pen is too fine; too broad.

This one suits me.

If you don’t mind, I will write a few postcards on the corner of this table.

Can you lend me some blotting-paper ?

Fill the pen, too, please.

I might take a bottle of ink as well.

AT THE

GENTLEMEN’S HAIRDRESSER’S

I want to have my hair cut.

Is there a decent hair-dresser about here ?

Will you be disengaged soon ? I haven’t time to wait long.

Is it my turn soon ?

Next, please!

This gentleman is next; he came in before me.

Please give me a haircut and a shave.

Cu et libro vere interesa ? Cu it lekto-vala ?

Ar vu… ? It ju estingat.

Mi no spar ki publikir it.

Var vu informisi e trali me it prokuri ?

Mi ju gor vidi lo nuv pyes. Ar vu lo libro ?

Mi vur aboni a et rivid. Prenar vu abonos ?

Sendu it a et adres.

Mi departar travele. Mi vur i som liv lekto pol tren.

Ke konselar vu ?

Mi vidar vu ar ye un bel edit del pyesos de … Sar it nuva о okazyona ?

Yo pur mi tri eto okazyone ?

Mi nesar som brifpapel. Mi sem prenar alba.

Eto no sufe bonqala. Me montru somo mela.

Cu eto va bonesta ?

Me diu un granira formel.

Ar vu kuna involvelos ?

Mi lir ma stilyo domye. Ar vu som cipas ?

Ar vu minulos po et lapel ?

Mi vur vidi som Londona vid-kartolos.

Etunos vere bona. Zi muy klara.

Kan kostar uno ? isduo ?

Mi no libar kolora kartos.

Et plum no automa. Mi nesar un gocil.

Lo plum tro fina; tro grosa.

Etun me konvenar.

Es vu permar, mi skribor som kartolos ol uk d’et tablo.

Par vu me presti sorben ?

Pli plenu an lo stilyo.

Mi shur preni an un ink-botel.

SHEL SIROKAPLER

Mi nesar kaplokot.

Cu un bon kapler iknire ?

Cu vu sun frida ? Mi no ar temp

atendi long. Cu sun maturne ? Folga, pli!

Nun lo turno d’et Siro; il arivir pre mi.

Pli kotu ma kaplos e me razu.

My hair only wants trimming.

Trim my moustache.

Don’t cut my hair too short.

Your razor wants stropping; it scrapes.

I think my hair is still rather long on the sides.

Give me a shampoo next; and a dry shampoo after.

Put a little eau de Cologne on a towel, and wipe my face with it.

Now, just a dash of powder.

Part my hair in the middle ; farther to the left; farther to the right.

Now, just a touch of brilliantine.

AT THE LADIES’ HAIRDRESSER’S

I wish to have my hair done.

When can I have an appointment ?

As soon as possible, for I have only broken my journey here.

I want my hair waved.

Begin by cutting my hair; it is rather long.

I prefer an oil-shampoo (a water shampoo).

No, I don’t need my hair bleaching; it will be enough to rinse it.

I only want my hair setting.

My hair stays well in curl.

Wave my hair with the curling-tongs.

Put a little brilliantine on.

Comb my hair back more, I like to have my forehead clear enough.

Dress my hair in small curls.

I should like my eyebrows plucked.

Could you give me a facial ?

Call the manicurist, please. I want her to do my nails.

Don’t cut them too short, please.

Ma kaplos nesar nur ritok. Ritoku ma mustash! No kotu ma kaplos tro kurta. Ya razil nesar eflo; it raskar.

Mi trar ma kaplos nok epe longa nel eltos.

Nun me shampu, e doe un frixyon.

Tiu epe Kolnaqo on un shugil e me

shugu lo vizo. Nun, nur epe pulvel. Me fiu un rigo mede; linkire; dexire.

Nun, un toket de brilantin.

SHEL DAMOS-KAPLER

Mi dezar me kaplifi.

Van par mi i un apuntado ? Suneste, den mi ik travelmede.

Mi var un permanel.

Ensu pe un kot; ma kaplos epe tro longa.

Mi prifar un olyo- (aqo-)shampo.

No, mi no nesar dikolorazo; rinso sufar.

Mi nesar nur un plisado.

Ma kaplos servar ben ondul.

Me fiu un fir-ondulazo.

Tiu epe brilantin.

Riru nok ma kaplos ; mi libar i front dipegat.

Me kaplu kon frizelos.

Mi dezur ma surcilos dipilat.

Pur vu me fac-maspi ?

Rufu lo manukurin, pli, el fiu ma unglos.

No ze kotu tro kurta, pli.

AT THE DOCTOR’S

abscess abseco alcohol alkol anaemia anemio anaemic ane—

mika ankle kavilyo antipyrin anti—

pirin appendicitis

apendicit appetite apetit appointment

apuntado arm braso asthma asmo asthmatic asma back(noun) dorso band bendo

to bandage ben-di

bed bed to go to bed

bedigi to stay in bed

kushi, bedali belly ventro bicarbonate bikarbonat blind cega boil (noun) furko bowel intestin,

budel brain cerebro to breathe spiri bronchial tubes bronkos

bronchitis bronkit

bruise; to - так; maki burn ; to - brul; -i

cachet kapsul calf (of the leg)

pulpel carbolic acid

fenol castor oil ricinolyo to catch (an illness) kontraki to catch cold

koldi cheek vango

chemist farma—

kist chest pex chicken pox

varikel colic kolik cod-liver oil merlukolyo compress kompres, -al lungs’ congestion pulma kongestyon contipation (costiveness) konstip to consult konsulti

consultation

konsull(o) consumption

pexit consumptive

pexita contagion kontago contagious kontaga cotton wool va-to

cough; lo -

tus; -i deaf surda diabetes diabet diabetic diabeta diarrhoea dia-reo

to digest digesti digestion digest digestive di-gestifa, -tibia disease egro drop goc dropper gocil dysentery disenterit dyspepsia maldigest, dispepsio

dyspeptic maldigesta, dis-pepsa diuretic urifa ear orel

ear and throat specialist

orellaringist emetic vomifa ether eter eye ok

eye-wash kolir (yo)

to faint esvani fainting esvan fatigue laso fever febro feeling sensado,

senso sick feeling nau-zo

feeling of faint—

ness malsen-sado flu grip forearm antebraso fool ped fracture; lo -

fraktur; -i gargle; lo -

gargo; -i gauze garso glycerine glicerin groin inguin head cef headache cefalgo health san good health

bonsan in good health

bonsana, -e heart kor heart disease

koregro heaviness cevo liip kox to hurt doli, fi

mal ill egra illness egro indigestion maldigest indisposition egrel, malsen-sado to inflame flogi,

inflami inflammation flogo, inllam influenza in—

lluenso, grip instep ped-kolo intestine intestin jaw maxel kidney ron, nefro knee zun lame klada lanolinc lanolin laudanum lau-dan

laxative laxifa leg gambo to limp kladi loins nefros, ronos; lombos lotion losyon measles rubit,

morbilyo medicine

(science) me-dik medicine (prescription) medikayo menthol mentol milk; - diet lakto; lakta regim morphia, morphine morfin mustard

plaster sinap nail unglo navel omblik neck kolo neuralgia neuralgio

nerve neuro nervous neura,

neurema nose nazo nostril naren oculist okist ointment unguent lo operate operi operation opero operator ope-rer

optician optiker pain dol, algo ; pen

to palpitate pulsi, palpiti palpitation pulso, palpit ‘ phenol fenol plaster plastro pill pilul pneumonia pulmonit pomatum pomad potion posyon powder pulvo prescription ri-cep

purge; to - purge ; -i purgative purgifa rash erupto relapse rekado rest; to - ripozo ; -i rheumatism

reumo rheumatic reu—

ma rib kostel scarlet fever

skarlatin sciatica shiatit sedative sedifa sensitive sensibla

to sneeze ster-nuti

shiver; to -

briv; -i shortsighted

miopa shoulder spal smallpox varyol sick; sickness

egra; egro sleeping

draught dormifa sleeplessness

sendormo sodium sulphate sodsulfato sole (of the foot)

pyanto sore alga sore throat gorgalgo lo sound askoltadi

sounding askoltado sprain; to -

tordel; -i stilcli sutur

(punt) stomach stoma к stomach aclie stomakalgo; ventralgo lo suffer sofri suffering sofro suppository ri-rel

surfeit maldigest lo swell enfi swelling enfo symptom sin-tom

tablet, tabloid

kompresel temperature

tempratur thermometer termometro thigh kosh throat gorgo tincture of iodine iodotin- to

tired lasa; to

tire lasi tiredness laso toe ortel(yo) tongue glos tuberculosis tuberklit tuberculous tuberklita twist; to - tordel ; -i typhoid fever

tifoid wrench; to -

tordal; -i valerian valeryan

vaseline vazlin vomiting vom to vomit vomi

berklit whooping-cough koklush

I haven’t been feeling well for the last few days. I think I want to see the doctor.

Give me the address of yours, please.

What are his consulting days ? and the hours ?

Are there a lot of people ?

I had better ask him for an appointment, then.

I have been feeling rather unwell for the last few days.

I have a feeling of weariness.

I have often a headache and my temperature rises a little nearly every evening.

I don’t cough much.

But I have a feeling of tightness across the chest, and at times I have trouble in breathing.

It doesn’t get so bad as to feel I am stifling, but it is very uncomfortable.

I sleep badly, and often wake up.

Sometimes I shiver.

Will you look at my throat ? It is sore.

I have caught cold, and yesterday I was running a high temperature.

I don’t digest my food well and after meals my stomach feels loaded. I keep close watch on my diet, though, and never eat to excess.

I have always had a weak stomach, and a change of cooking throws it out of order at once.

Will you sound my lungs ? I must have a touch of bronchitis.

I am very highly-strung, and I have often to take a sedative.

Don’t you find my heart rather irregular ?

I have palpitations at times.

I had pneumonia two years ago.

Except for that, my general state is satisfactory ?

I wrenched my ankle this morning and it hurts a lot. I am limping badly.

I had to take a taxi here.

I think I shall have to lie up.

How long shall I have to rest ?

I have had a fall and broken my arm.

Will you set it, please ?

My glasses aren’t strong enough. Can you tell me of an oculist ?

I am shortsighted; long-sighted.

With these glasses, I see things at a distance fairly well, but I can’t read. The letters get blurred.

These glasses suit me.

I see perfectly well.

Dep som idos, mi no sentisar ben. Mi var vidi lo doktor.

Me diu l’adres del vua, pli.

Ka la konsult-idos ? E l’oros ?

Cu ye mul jensos ?

Dan mi prifur aski un apuntado.

Mi sentisar nobene dep som idos.

U mi sento de laso.

U mi of cefalgo e ma tempratur altar epe fas shaksere.

Mi no tusar mul.

Mo mi ar sensado de pex-opres e somyes mi ar spiro-duf.

No gar us fogo-sensado, mo eto a say penifa.

Mi dormar male e velyijar of.

Somyes mi brivar.

Var vu miri ma gorgo ? It algar.

Mi koldijir e yer mi ir alta tempratur.

Mi no digestar ben e dol mensos ma stomak ceva. Mi dok survelyar ben ma regim e edar ni exede.

Mi sem ir stomak debla, e un kuk-kambo turbar it ilke.

Var vu me askoltadi ? U mi probable epe bronkit.

Mi muy neuro-tensa e shar of pren i un sedifa.

Cu vu no trar ma kor epe noregla ?

U mi somyes palpitados.

Mi ir pulmonit yo du anyos.

Eske eto, cu ma generalstando satisfa ?

Mi tordalir ma kavilyo etmatin e il algar asay. Mi kladar forte.

Mi shir preni un taxi po veni.

Mi krar mi shor sti laga.

Kan (long) shar mi ripozi ?

Mi kadir e frakturir ma braso.

Var vu it rebuxi, pli ?

Ma okil no sufe forta. Par vu me indiki un okist ?

Mi miopa; presbita.

Kon et vitros, mi vidar asay ben duse, mo mi no par lekti : letros brolijar.

Et vitros me konvenar.

Mi vidar perfe.

We should like to go to the theatre. Have you a booklet like our This Week in Paris to tell us what is being played ?

I don’t know any of these plays. Can you give me an idea of what they are like ?

I don’t want too serious a play. I prefer something that would make me laugh.

There must not be too many things over my head either.

Something simple enough for me to understand, or perhaps a classical play I might have read.

If you can get me the book of the play, I would read it before I go.

What time does the evening performance begin ?

At six thirty or seven ? It’s dreadfully early!

How can you put in the rest of the evening ? The performance must be over by nine fifteen.

It is too late to go to the Music Hall. But one could finish off the evening in a night club.

Is there a ticket-agent’s office anywhere here ?

If it is in the Strand, I know where it is. I’ll be going past this afternoon, and I’ll step into the box-office myself.

Will you please give me two stalls ? Not too close to the stage, though.

You have no seats left except in the back row ? That doesn’t matter. I’ll take them.

I should have to book a week ahead at least ? Unless I go to the second gallery ?

And in that case I should have to queue up ?

How long has the play been running ?

I’m going to have a look at the bill.

Are the intervals long ?

Is evening-dress compulsory ?

Is there a curtain-raiser before the big play ?

Would you mind asking the box-attendant if she could get me a programme ?

Do you think this play witty ? To my mind, it is rather boring.

This actress plays really well. She has got inside her part.

This actor overacts a bit. He is not natural enough.

Ah! the curtain is going up for the second act.

I am glad I came. The play was

Nos dezur gi a teatro. Ar vu un broxel as na “Et vek Parisye”, indikanda ко ludat ?

Mi konar nilun d’et pyesos. Par vu me di un ideo de lo ke zi sar ?

Mi no dezar un pyes tro serya. Mi prifar somo ki me fur ridi.

Nor shur si tro kozos sure ma kompren.

Somo asay simpla ut mi komprenu, о forse un pyes klasika ke mi ja lektir.

Es vu par me prokuri lo texto del pyes, mi pur it lekti pree.

Kaore ensar lo ser-performo ?

A sit e dim ? Eto terible frua.

Kom par vu pasi lo rest del serado ? Lo performo certe endat um non e qarim.

Sar tro tarde po gi muzikhalye. Mo so pur endi lo serado in un nox-bux. (in un noxaro; noxarye)

Cu un tikelagentur iknire ?

Es nel Strand, mi spar vo it. Mi gor domide e pasor miself al kontor.

Var vu pli me di du poltos ? Dok no tro nir shen.

Ve restar nur plasos nel last rango ? No vikar. Mi ze prenor.

Mi shur luki minste un vek pricade ? Eske es mi gar al dua galerio ?

E yenkaze mi shur fildoni ?

Depvan lo pyes ol afish ?

Mi gar miri l’afish.

Cu interaktos longa ?

Cu seraden obliga ?

Cu ye un prepyeset ?

Var vu pli aski l’aprerin me di un program ?

Trar vu et pyes spirtola ? Po mi, it pluye nuga.

Et aktorin ludar vere ben. El entrar ine sa rol.

Et aktor sur-rolar epe. II no asay natura.

Ah! Lo kurten levar pol dua akto.

Mi glada veninde. Lo pyes sir

worth seeing. And I liked

the acting very much.

Do you think I could understand at the Music Hall ?

It is more difficult to understand songs than speech.

Then there are often topical allusions a foreigner cannot grasp.

The jokes are often incomprehensible.

Taking everything into consideration, I think I had better go quietly to the pictures.

I shall be sure to understand and put in a pleasant evening.

What films are billed at present ?

Are there continuous performances ?

When do they start and when do they close down ?

What is the rule on Sundays ? It should not be the same as on weekdays ?

On weekdays from half past ten or noon till half past ten at night, and on Sundays from three p. m. onwards ?

Of course, smoking is permitted ?

Does there happen to be a tea-room attached to the establishment ?

That’s all right! We’ll go there. That will save us the trouble of going out and hunting for something.

Is there anything like our Стёас in Paris, where you can spend an hour looking at a film of topical interest ?

Of course, there must be Dance Clubs ?

Are there any open in the afternoon ?

Where can I go if I want a diner dansant ?

So the most fashionable - and

therefore the most expensive - are the Embassy in Old Bond Street, and Ciro’s, off Leicester Square ?

I should like, too, to be able to take the children to the circus now and again. There must be something of the sort in London, I suppose ?

I am very fond of music. Where can one go to hear a good concert ?

I believe the best symphonic concerts are given in the Albert Hall?

The Promenade Concerts take place in summer only, every night, except Sundays ?

Do regimental bands sometimes play in the open air ?

videnda. E mi mul libir l’aktora-do.

Cu vu kredar mi komprenur Muzikhalye ?

Kanto plu dufkompenibla qam parlo.

Ye inotre loka aludos k’un xena no kapar.

Plezantos of nokapibla.

Tokontat, po mi prifenda gi kinye.

Mi sor certa kompreni e pasi bon serado.

Ka filmos pasar nun ?

Cu ye permana performos ?

Kaore ensar zi e kaore endar ?

Ka lo dominka regim ? No shur si sama as veke ?

Vekide ab isedim о mid us isedim sere. Dominke ab tre domide ?

Certe fumi permat ? Cu somyes us tesalon apse lo establo ?

Eto perfa! Nos gor ye. Eto ne evor lo pen d’exi kiri somo.

Cu ik somo as “Cineac” Parisye, vo vu par pasi un or mirande un dokumentel ?

Ye certe Dans-Klubos ?

Cu somunos apra domide ?

Qo pur mi po un danso-pranso ?

Zo lo plu shikas - e dete lo plu shiras sar “Embassy” in Old Bond Street e “Ciro’s nir Leicester Square ?

Mi an dezur pi duki l’infanos cerkye temtempe. Certe ye somo tala Londonye, mi putar ?

Mi mul libar muzik. Qo pur mi ut udi un bon koncert ?

Mi krar lo bonesta sinfon-koncertos dat nel Albert Hall ?

Promen-Koncertos lokedar nur zo-me, shaksere, eske Dominke ?

Cu regiment-bandos somyes ludar fridaere ?

I should like to visit…

Which is the best way to go there ? By train ? by motorcoach ?

Is there a through coach-service ?

Where have you to change ?

Which is the quickest ? the railway ?

It must be nicer to travel by coach.

Are the coaches as comfortable as the railway ?

Is the connection guaranteed by coach ?

Is the service as good as on the railway ?

Have you a railway time-table and the times of the coaches, so that I can compare the services ?

How many times do they run every day.

By coach, you have to stop on the way for lunch ?

Can you easily get lunch at the stops ?

Where do you get the coach ?

Where do you book ?

Can you get a seat without reserving it beforehand ?

How many days beforehand has one to apply for reservation ?

Is the booking-office always open ?

Do you travel by night ?

I want a flrst-(third-) class ticket for…

I want a single (a return) for…

Is there a seat left in to-day’s coach ?

Can I choose my seat ?

I prefer sitting in front; at the back; near a window; near a door; at the end of a row.

Where does the coach start from ?

What time does the coach start ?

What time does it reach… ?

Are there several lines running there ?

Where do the boats start from ?

Is there a regular (daily) service ?

How many sailings are there a day ?

Can you go there and come back in one day ?

Are there several classes on the boat ?

How long does it take the boat to cross ?

Are the boats comfortable ?

Can one take a cabin ?

Do you have meals on board ?

Is the food decent ?

Is the food included in the fare ?

How long have you to visit… ?

What is the price of a first-(third-) class ticket ?

Is the sea rough at this time of the year ?

Mi dezur viziti… Ka lo bonesta mezo gi ye ? Trene ? Kare ?

Cu ye un regla kar-sirvo ? Vo shar vu kambi ? Ко rapidira ? Firveo ? Shar si plazira traveli kare. Cu karos as komoda as firveo ?

Cu lo kara konex sekurat ?

Cu sirvo as bona as trene ?

Ar vu un tren-e un kar-oruyo, ut mi komparu lo sirvos ?

Kanyes ide rular zi ?

Kare, cu vu shar fermi onvege po lunc ?

Par vu obteni lunc ize nel fermos ?

Vo lo kar prenenda ?

Vo lo tikel prenenda ?

Par vu i un plas sen rizervi pricade ?

Kan idos pricade shar vu rizervi ?

Cu lo tikelkontor sem apra ?

Cu travelar vu noxe ?

Mi nesar un primklasa (treaklasa)

tikel po… Midezar un un go (un goreven) po… Cu restar un frid plas nel oja kar ?

Par mi elgi ma plas ? Mi prifar sidi fronte; rire; nir fenso; nir pordo; al endo d’un rango. Unde departar lo kar ? Kaore departar lo tren ? Kaore arivar it a… ? Cu ye plul sirvos po et lin ?

Unde departar lo shipos ? Cu ye un regla (ida) sirvo ? Kan ida departos ye ? Par vu gi ye e baki samide ?

Cu ye def klasos nel ship ?

Kan durar lo shipa traverso ?

Cu lo shipos konforta ?

Par so preni un kabin ?

Ar vu mensos bordye ?

Cu fud decenta ?

Cu fud insa nel presyel ?

Kan tempo ar vu po viziti… ?

Ka lo presyo d’un primklasa

(treaklasa) tikel ? Cu mar ajitat etsize ?

Fromthe INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE REVIEW, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

THE FIVE MAJOR CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGES

THIS INFORMATION SHEET is widely distributed as a service of

FRIENDS OF THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE (FIL)

Address :

P.O. Box 393, Denver 1, Colorado U.S.A. (1)

ESPERANTO

First introduced in 1887, it is now widely used in business, travel, science and other fields in more than 80 countries. It has extensive literature of its own in original works textbooks, dictionaries and magazines are available. For further information, write :

Universal Esperanto Association, Nieuwe Binnenweg 176, Rotterdam, 2 Netherlands; or Esperanto Library, Middleton, Wisconsin, USA

I DO

is a revised version of Esperanto, free from diacritical marks. Its vocabulary is based on the chief European languages. Its grammar is simple and can be mastered in a few hours. The Ido movement is well organized and has representatives in more than 30 countries. For further information, write :

International Language (Ido) Society of Great Britain, 264 Carlton Rd., Worksop, Notts., England; or Carl A. Rostrom, 4504 N. Racine Ave., Apt. 3, Chicago 40, 111. USA

INTERLINGUA

was first introduced by its author, Dr. Alexander Gode of Science Service, in 1951. Based on Standard Average European roots, many find it readable at sight. More than 20 medical and scientific journals use it for summaries. For information, write :

Union Mundial pro Interlingua, 80 E. 11th St. New York N. Y. 1003; or : British Interlingua Society, 88 Pet-ersfield Rd., Hall Green, Birmingham 28, England.

INTERLINGUE - OCCIDENTAL

invented by Edgar de Wahl in 1922, now has adherents in many countries. It combines maximum regularity with a natural international vocabulary. Its grammar is short and easily mastered. It is readable at sight by educated people. For more information, write :

Interlingue Institute, 1033 Chc-seaux, Switzerland; or Interlingue Service, 83 rue Roche-chouart, Paris IX, France.

NEO

was introduced in 1961 by its author, Arturo Alfandari of Brussels, Belgium. It combines the best features of the “schematic” and “naturalistic” types of interlanguages. Based to a large extent on the root words of European tongues, it is simple, brief and easy to learn. It has enthusiastic users in many countries.

For more information write :

Friends of Neo, 36, Avenue Emile Duray, Brussels 5, Belgium.

(1) Information can also be obtained from FIL office, 66, Shaftesbury Avenue, London W 1 (REGent 2040).

From the INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE REVIEW, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A .

THE LORD’S PRAYER

(For Comparison) In English and Five Constructed Languages

ENGLISH - Matthew 6:9 - 13. King james Version

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

ESPERANTO — Zamenhof, 1887

Patro nia, kiu estas on la cielo, sankta estu via nomo.

Venu regno via. Esia volo via, tiel en la 6ielo tiel апкай sur la tero.

Panon nian diutagan donu al ni hodiaii.

Kaj pardonu al ni Suldojn niajn, kiel ni апкай pardonas al niaj Suldantoj. Kaj ne konduku nin en la tenton, sed liberigu nin de la malbono.

I DO — De Beaufort, 1907

Patro nia, qua esas en la cielo, tua nomo santigesez.

Tua regno advenez. Tua volo facesez quale en la cielo tale anke sur la tero. Donez a ni cadie l’omnidial pano.

E pardonez a ni nia ofensi, quale anke ni pardonas a nia ofensanti. E ne duktez ni aden la tento, ma liberigez ni del malajo.

OCCIDENTAL (Interlingue) - de Wahl, 1922

Nor patre, qui es in li ciel, mey vor nomine esser santificat.

Mey vor regne venir. Mey vor vole esser fat, qualmen in li ciel, talmen

anc sur li terra. Da nos hodie nor omnidial pane.

E pardona nos nor debetes, qualmen anc noi pardona nor debitores. E ne ducte nos in li tentation, ma libera nos de lu mal.

INTERLINGUA - Gode, 1951

Nostre patre, qui es in le celo, que vostre nomine es sanctificate.

Que vostre regno veni. Que vostre voler es facite, como in le celo, talmente

etiam sur terra. Da nos hodie nostre pan quotidian.

E pardona nos nostre debitas, como etiam nos pardona nostre debitores. E поп duce nos in tentation, sed libera nos del mal.

NEO — Alfandari, 1961

Na Patro ki sar in eel, siu ta nam santat.

Venu ta regno. Siu fat ta vol, asben in eel, as on ter.

Na shakida pan ne diu oje.

E ne pardonu na debos, as nos pardonar na deberos. E no ne induku in tentado, mo ne fridu da mal.

THIRD PART

READING SELECTIONS

I. - PROSE.

THE PLEASURE OF LIFE

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition; they do a better thing than that, they practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Live-ableness of Life. R.L. Stevenson.

Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, shedding brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison. John Lubbock

Life must be measured by thought and action, not by time. It certainly may be, and ought to be, bright, interesting, and happy; for, according to the Italian proverb, “if all cannot live on the Piazza, every one may feel the sun”. John Luboock.

If a man is unhappy, remember that unhappiness is his own fault; for God has made all men to be happy. — I am always content with that which happens; for I think that what God chooses is better than what I choose. Epictetus

If we separate ourselves so much from the interests of those around us that we do not sympathise with them in their sufferings, we shut ourselves out from sharing their happiness, and lose far more than we gain. If we avoid sympathy and wrap ourselves round in a cold chain armour of selfishness, we exclude ourselves from many of the greatest and purest joys of life. To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibility of happiness. John Lubbock.

With most of us it is not so much great sorrows, disease, or death, but rather the little “daily dyings” which cloud over the sunshine of life. Many of our troubles are insignificant in themselves, and might easily be avoided. John Lubbock.

Though we have a sure and certain hope of progress for the race, still, as far as man is individually concerned, with advancing years we gradually care less and less for many things which gave us the keenest pleasure in youth. On the other hand, if our time has been well used, if we have warmed both hands wisely “before the fire of life”, we may gain even more than we lose. As our strength becomes less, we feel also the less necessity for exertion. Hope is gradually replaced by memory; and whether this adds to our happiness or not depends on what our life has been.

As with the close of the day, so with that of life; there may be clouds, and yet if the horizon is clear, the evening may be beautiful.

John Lubbock.

Life is not acceptable if we do not admit these two axioms : everything is possible and everybody is right. Fontenelle.

(Let us modify a little this second axiom and say : “and everybody is somewhat right”.)

Paradoxical as it may appear, those whose nature is pessimistic are more unhappy when things go well with them than when they don’t. For, when all goes badly, they do at least have something to complain

TREA PART

LEKTO - ELGO

I. - PROZO.

VIVO-PLAZO

Un vir о un fem ixa sar un mela trovel qam un qin-sterling monal. II о el sar un radanda foken de bonvol; e za entro in un kam as es un osa kandel ju alumat. No ne vikar es zi par solvi lo qarissepa propozo; zi far somo mela, zi pratike demontrar lo gran Teorem del vivibleso de viv.

Shakun shar i sentat k’un amik gada sar as un id solya, spansanda bril totume; e plus nos par, les nos elgar, fi d’et mond un palaso о un prizo.

Viv shar si mezurat pe penso e aktado, no pe tempo. It certe par, e shur si, klara, interesa e ixa; den, les I’itala proverb “es tos no par vivi ol Plas, shakun par senti lo solyo”.

Es un vir malixa, sovenu ke la malix sa kulpo; den Deo fir tot viros senda ixa. — Mi sem kontenta kon lo ki oxar ; den mi pensar ke lo ke Deo elgar mela qam lo ke mi elgar.

Es nos ne separar tan dal interesos de zi ki ne umar us no pati kon za sofros, nos ne exkludar da parti za ix e perdar plu qam nos ganar. Es nos evitar simpatio e ne involvar in un friga blindo d’egoismo, nos ne exkludar da mul intel granesta e puresta joyos de viv. Ne fande nosensibla a pen, nos shar an perdi lo posibleso d’ix.

Po plus nos, no sar tan lo gran penos, egro, о mort, mo pluye lo let “shakida kontralos” ki ne skelar lo solyolum de viv. Mul na penos sar senvika in soself, e pur ize si evitat.

Gre nos ar un firma spero de progres pol oma ras, dok, asdus l’om koncernat individue, avansande in a jo nos zorgar minmine pri kozos ki in na yuno ne dir lo granesta plazo. Oselte, es na tempo sir utat bene, es nos sage varmir amba manos “al fok de viv”, nos par gani plu qam nos perdar. Dun na forto minar, nos sentar an min neso d’exerco. Spero gradele riplasat pe soven, e lo k’etun adar о no a na ix dependar da lo ke na viv sir.

As l’id-endo, same l’endo de viv; ye par si nubos, mo, es l’orizon klara, lo ser par si splenda.

Viv no axeptibla es so no admitar et du axiomos : to posibla e tos raga. (Nos modifiku live et dua axiom e dicu : “e shakun epe raga”.)

Askan paradoxa it pur pari, jensos de pesimista natur plu malixa van to gar ben qam van to gar male. Den, van to gar male, zi ar pomine somo dey lamenti, e lo spero d’un ritorno del mel cirkonsos dar a zi un lucel about, and the hope of better times gives them a glimmer of happiness; but when all is going well, their pessimism still causes them to moan and they become the very picture of misery unrelieved by hope.

A.

If I were called to condense a lifetime of experience into a single maxim for living, I would say : “keep young”. He who can keep the heart he had as a child, youthful in spirit, will find his path leads to success and happiness. Remain a student, retain your curiosity and your joy in being alive, and assuredly you will have found the secret of how to grow up.

Herbert Casson.

A wit has said : ,,Die young, but die as late as you can.”

…I have often thought that men reach the limits of youth when memories outweigh hopes. But even so there is an escape ; for by continuing to hope we can keep our heart young.

Ah! how hard to say where youthfulness ends! It varies from one being to another, and even from one day to another.

G6rard Bauer.

GENESIS

1/1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so.

And God called the dry land Earth; and tlie gathering together of the waters called he Seas : and God saw it was good.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass, and lierb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind : and God saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the third day.

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.

And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

And God made two great lights ; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night : he made the stars also.

And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.

And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness : and God saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.

d’ix ; dunke, van to gar ben, za natur ze portande dok a gemos, zi lo vera imago de malix sen sper.

Es mi shur kondensi l’ent erfaro de ma viv in un sol formul, mi dicur : “restu yuna!”. II ki par servi sa kor d’infan e spirto-yuneso tror lo veg de suxes e ix. Resti sem un student, sem plena de kuryozeso e del joy de vivi, em lo sekro del persona devolvo.

Un vir spirtola pir dici : “so shar morti yuna, mo tardeste posibla”.

…Mi of pensir ke lo moment van nos cesar si vere yuna, sar van lo pezo de sovenos jar plu ceva qam lo del speros. E dok eto no certa, e so par, kon рок spero, servi nok un kor muy yuna.

Ah! kan lo limitos de yuneso dufdefenibla! Zi varyar les lo seos, so pur uske dici les l’idos.

GENES

1/1. Ense Deo kreir lo eel e lo ter.

Lo ter sir senforma e voda; tenebros sir sure l’abis. E lo Spirto de Deo onir l’aqos.

Deo dicir : “Siu lum”,; e lum sir.

Deo vidir ke lo lum sir bona ; e Deo separir lum da tenebros.

Deo namir lo lum Id, e II namir lo tenebros Nox. E lo ser e lo matin sir lo prim id.

E Deo dicir : “Siu un firmament mede l’aqos, e it separu l’aqos dal aqos.

E Deo fir lo firmament, e separir l’aqos ki sar sube lo firmament dal aqos ki sir sure lo firmament. E eto sir.

E Deo namir lo firmament Cel. E lo ser e lo matin sir l’id dua.

E Deo dicir: L’aqos ki sar sube lo eel se riunu in un sol lok, e lo ter seka parsu. E eto sir.

E Deo namir lo sekayo Ter; e II namir lo masos d’aqos Mar; e Deo vidir eto sir bona.

E Deo dicir : Lo ter produku erbo, erbo portanda semen, e frutyeros danda frut les sa speco, dey semen in itself, sure lo ter. E eto sir.

E lo ter produkir erbo, erbo danda semen, e arbo danda frut, dey semen sir in itself, les sa speco. E Deo vidir eto sir bona.

E lo ser e lo matin sir l’id trea.

E Deo dicir : “Siu lumos nel firmament del eel, ut separi id da nox : e zi siu segnos po sizos, po idos e po anyos.

E zi siu lumos nel firmament del eel ut di lum ol ter. E eto sir.

E Deo fir du gran lumos; lo gran lum po regli l’id, e lo let lum po regli lo nox; e II fir an lo stelos.

E Deo ze plasir nel firmament del eel ut di lum ol ter.

E ut oni l’id e lo nox, e separi lum da tenebros : E Deo vidir, eto bona.

E lo ser e lo matin sir l’id qara.

E Deo dicir : L’aqos produku abonde mova vivanimalos, e ezos fluganda sure lo ter nel apra firmament del cel.

E Deo kreir gran balenos e tosorta vivanimalos ke l’aqos produkar abonde, les za specos, e tot alat ezos les za specos. E Deo vidir eto bona.

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind : and it was so.

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness : and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed : to you it shall be for meat.

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat : and it was so.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

II/l. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it : because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT

(St. Matthew.)

5) 1. And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain : and when he was set, his disciples came unto him :

And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying.

Blessed are the poor in spirit : for their’s is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they that mourn : for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek : for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness : for they shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful : for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart : for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers : for they shall be called the children of God.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake : for their’s is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad : for great is your reward in heaven : for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Ye are the salt of the earth : but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted ? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

E Deo ze benedir, dicande : “Siu frutifa e multiplu, e plenu l’aqos nel maros e l’ezos multiplu on ter.”

E lo ser e lo matin sir l’id qina.

E Deo dicir : “Lo ter produku vivanimalos les za speco, besteyo, serpos, e belvos les za specos!” E eto sir.

Deo fir lo belvos les za specos, e serpos les za specos, e Deo vidir eto bona.

E Deo dicir : “Nos fiu l’om les na imago, les na semblo : e il domenu sure lo peshos del mar e sure l’ezos del er, e sure lo besteyo, e on l’enta ter, e on tot serpos on ter.

Ete Deo kreir l’om les sa imago, les l’imago de Deo II le kreir : vir e fem kreat pe II.

E Deo ze benedir, e Deo dicir a zi : “Vu si frutifa, e multiplu, e plenu lo ter e vu it syeku; e vu domenu ol peshos ki sar nel mar e ol ezos ki sar in er, e on kel animal ki movar on ter!”

E Deo dicir : “Em, mi ve dar kel erbo danda semen existanda ol ter, e shak arbo anda in so arbofrut e portanda semen e eto sor va fud.

E a shak best on ter, e a shak ezo in er, e a shak Serpo del ter anda viv, Tot verd erbos as fud. E eto sir.

E Deo vidir tot kozos k’ll ir fat, e, em, sir muy bona. E lo ser e lo matin sir l’id sita.

II/l. Ete sir endat lo celos e lo ter, e tot la abiteros.

E l’id sepa Deo endir sa labor, k’ll ir fat; e il ripozir lo sepa id dal enta labor k’ll ir fat.

E Deo benedir l’id sepa, e II it santir, per II in it ir ripozat da sa enta labor ke Deo kreir e fir.

LO MONT-SERMON

(San Mateo.)

5) 1. Vidinde lo ful, Jesu ashendir un mont : ye sidinde, la dishiplos venir a il;

E il aprir sa bok, с ze ensenir, dicande :

Ixa lo spirtopovas, den zia lo cela royado.

Ixa zi ki dolyar, den zi sor konsolat.

Ixa l’umilas, den zi eredor lo ter.

Ixa los ki ongar e sefar po justis, den zi sor satisfat.

Ixa lo barmas, den zi obtenor gnado.

Ixa lo kor-puras, den zi vidor Deo.

Ixa lo paxifas, den zi sor namat filyos de Deo.

Ixa zi ki persekat kauze za driteso, den zia lo cela royado.

Ixa vu, van vu sor injurat e persekat, e van so dicor false tosorta mal pri vu kauze mi.

Vu siu glada, extreme glada, den grana sor va rikompenso in eel; den ete so persekir lo profetos ki venir pre vu.

Vu lo sal del ter, mo es sal perdur sa sapor, kon ко so salor ? It sur dan bona po nix, eske jekenda e fuldenda sub pedos d’omos.

Vu lo lum del mond. Un urbo situat on un bergel no par si skelat.

Nor so alumar un kandel po it ti sub un mojo, mo on un kandelil, e it dar lum a tos domye.

Liu va lum luci ante l’omos, ut zi vidu va bon opros e gloru va Patro ki sar in cel.

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets : I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven : but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment :

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment : and whosoever shall say to his brother “Raca” shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say “Thou fool” shall be in danger of hell fire.

Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee ;

Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

Ye have heard that it was said иу them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery :

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths :

But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne;

Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.

Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

But let your communication be, Yea, yea ; Nay, nay : for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth :

But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.

And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Vu no pensu ke mi venir ut deli lo lex о lo profetos : Mi no venir ut deli, mo ut kumpi.

Den mi ve dicar verede, aslong ter e eel existor, no un yot, no un punt diparsor dal lex, us to kumpat.

Dete kelun volcor lo letesta d’et komandos, ensenande same osunos, il namator lo letesta nel cela royado : mo kelun ze far e ensenar namator grana nel cela royado.

Den mi ve it dicar, Men va driteso depasar lo driteso del taxaleros e del Farisyanos, vu nilkaze entror nel cela royado.

Vu udir, priskunos dicir : No ocidu, e kelun ocidor sor in dango de jugo;

Mo mi ve dicar ke kelun irsar ver sa frat sen grun sor an in dango de jugo; e kelun dicar a sa frat “Raka” sor in dango de tribunal; mo kelun dicar : “Tu idyota” sor in dango d’inferna fok.

Dete es tu aportar ta ofrayo al altar, e es ye tu memar ke ta frat ar som rankor kontre tu :

Liu ye ta ofrayo ante l’altar e giu prime rekonsili kon ta frat, e dan tu venor fi ta ofrayo.

Akordu vit kon ta adverser van tu onvege kon il, ut il no te livru al juger, e etun al gendarmo e tu sendat prizye.

Verede mi te dicar, tu nilmode en exor, pre tu or pagat l’ultima monul.

Vu udir, priskunos dicir : tu no komitu adulter;

Mo mi ve dicar ke kelun mirar un fem kon lust ja komitar adulter in sa kor.

E es ta dexa ok falar, tu racu it e jeku it dus da tu, den mele un ta glid perat qam ta enta korpo jekat in inferno.

E es ta dexa man falar, tu kotu it e jeku it dus da tu, den mele un ta glid perat qam l’enta korpo jekat in inferno.

So dicir priske; kelun ripudyar sa fem shar di a el un divorso-akten ;

Mo mi ve dicar ke kelun ripudyar sa fem, eske kauze fornik, ley pushar komiti adulter; e kelun spozar un divorsin komitar adulter.

Vu an udir, so ir dicat priske : tu no parjuror, mo tu mentenor ta juros ante Deo;

Mo mi ve dicar : Vu juru nilkaze, nor pel eel, den etun lo tron de Deo ;

Nor pel ter, den etun lo pedil de Deo; nor pe Jerusalem, den etun l’urbo del gran Roy.

Nor tu juror pe ta cef, den tu no par au albi au neri un sol kaplo.

Mo siu va parlo : Ya, ya; No, no; den keloso pluda venar dal Mal.

Vu udir, so ir dicat : ok po ok, dent po dent;

Mo mi ve dicar : Vu no oponu a mal, e a kelun ve kolpar ol dexa vango vu prezentu l’osa.

E es kelun te procesar e te tular ta vest, tu ofru lu an ta mant.

E es kelun te forcar marci un milyo, tu marcu kon il du milyos.

Tu diu a ki te askar e no ditornu da ki vur loni.

Vu udir, so ir dicat: Tu amor ta vezun e odor ta nemik;

Mo mi ve dicar : Vu amu va nemikos, benedu ki ve maledar, flu ben a ki ve odar, e pregu po zi ki ve spicar e persekar.

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven : for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye ? do not even the publicans the same ?

And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others ? do not even the publicans so ?

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

6) 1. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

Therefore when thou doesl thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth :

That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are : for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. ‘

Be not ye therefore like unto them : for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

After this manner therefore pray ye : Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Thv kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil : For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you :

But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret : and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal :

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal :

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

The light of the body is the eye : if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

No man can serve two masters : for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put

Ut vu siu l’infanos de va Patro ki sar In eel: den 11 far luci la solyo ol malas e ol bonas, e sendar pluv ol justa e ol maljusta.

Den es vu amar nur zi ki v’amar, ka va merit ? No far same mesme Io taxaleros ?

E es vu salutar nur va fratos, ke far vu plu qam osunos ? No far same mesme lo taxaleros ?

Vu dete siu perfa, as sar perfa va Patro ki sar in cel.

в) 1. Atensu no nlmoni ante 1’omos lit si vidat pe zi, ose vu or nil rikompenso da va Pntro ki sar in Cel.

Dete, van tu nlmonar, no trombu ante tu, as far l’ipokritas nel sinagogos e nel strados, ut si glorifat pel omos. Verede mi ve dicar, zi ja ar sa rikompenso.

Mo van tu almonar, tu liu ta linka man ignori lo ke lo dexa far;

Siu ta almon sekra ; e ta Patro ki vidar ine sekro Ilself te rikompensor ample.

E van tu pregnr, tu no sor as l’ipokritas : den zi libar pregi stare nel sinagogos e nel ukos del strados, ut si vidat pel omos. Verede mi ve dicar; zi ar ja sa rikompenso.

Mo tu, van tu pregar, entru in un kamet, e klozu lo pordo e pregu ta Patro ki ye in sekro, e ta Patro ki vidar ine sekro te rikompensor ample.

Mo van vu pregar, no utu vana ripos, as paganos far; den zi krar zi sor udat dank za mul vortos.

Dete vu no siu as zi, den va Patro spar ka kozos vu nesar pre vu Lu askar.

Dete vu pregu ete :

‘ Na Patro ki sar in Cel, siu ta nam santat.

Venu ta regno. Siu ta vol fat on ter, asben in Cel.

Ne diu oje na shakida pan.

E pardonu na debos as nos pardonar na deberos.

E tu no ne induku in tentado, mo ne fridu da mal; den tua sar Royado, poso e glor, po sem. Amen.

Den es vu pardonar a osunos za malaktos, va cela Patro an ve pardonor.

Mo es vu no pardonar a osunos za malaktos, nor va Patro pardonor lo vuas.

Inotre van vu junar, no siu, as l’ipokritas, tristaspa : den zi se difigurar, ut so vidu zi junar. Verede mi ve dicar, zi ar ja sa rikompenso.

Mo tu, van tu junar, ungu ta cef e lavu ta vizo :

Ut til no aspu junanda ante omos, mo ante ta Patro ki sar ine sekro ; e ta Patro, ki vidar in sekro, te rikompensor ample.

Vu no amasu tresoros on ter, vo tarmos e rust korompar, e vo ladros efrangar e furtar;

Mo amasu po vuself tresoros in eel, vo nor tarmos о rust korompar e vo ladros no efrangar e furtar.

Den vo va tresoros, ye sor an va kor.

L’ok sar lo lum del korpo ; dete, es ta ok sana, ta enta korpo sor plena de lum.

Mo es ta ok malsana, ta enta korpo sor in darko. Dete, es lo lum ine tu darka, kan grana sor et darko!

Nilun par sirvi du mastros; den au il odor l’un e amor l’osa, au U afektor etun e spicor l’osa. Vu no par sirvi Deo e Mamon.

Dete mi ve dicar : no zorgu pri va viv, ke vu edor о ke vu bevor о ke vu weror. No sar viv plu qam karno e korpo plu qam vest ?

on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment ?

Behold the fowls of the air : for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they ?

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature ?

And why take ye thought for raiment ? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin :

And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, О ye of little faith ?

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat ? or, What shall we drink ? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed ?

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek :) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow : for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

7) 1. Judge not, that ye be not judged.

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ?

Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye ; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye ?

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you :

For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone ?

Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent ?

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him ?

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them : for this is the law and the prophets.

Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat :

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ?

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied

Vu miru l’ezos erye : zi nor semenar о rakoltar, nor amasar zi in grenaros ; dok va cela Patro ze nutrar. No valar vu plu qam zi ?

Ki de vu pur, pe kel esfort, adi un inco a sa statur ?

E kur zorgar vu pri vest ? Miru lo lilyos nel feld, kom zi kreskar : zi no laborar о filar.

E dok mi ve dicar ke Salomon ilself in sa plen glor no sir vestat as un d’et lilyos.

Donk, es Deo vestar ete l’erbo nel feld, erbo ki oje sar e kras sor jekat al ofno, cu no ve vestor il deste plu, omos pokfida ?

Dete, no ve preokupu, dicande : Ke edor nos ? о : Ke bevor nos ? о : Kom ne vestor nos ?

(Den lo paganos kirar toet kozos) mc va cela Patro spar ke vu nesai toeto.

Mo vu kiru prime lo royado de Deo, e la rekteso : e toeto ve sor adat.

Dete no zorgu pri kras : krasyo zorgor po itself. A shak id sufar sa pen.

7) 1. No jugu, ut no si jugat.

Den pel jugo ke tu far tu sor jugat; e pel mezur ke tu utar tu sor mezurat.

E kur vidar tu lo polvogren nel ok de ta frat sen atensi al plankon ki sar in ta prop ok ?

E kur var tu dici a ta frat : Me liu tuli lo polvogren da ta ok, dun, miru, ye un plankon in ta ok ?

Tu ipokrita, tulu prime lo plankon da ta ok; e dan рог tu vidi klare e tuli lo polvogren dal ok de ta frat.

Vu no diu kozos santa al kanyos; nor jeku va perlos ante porkos, ut zi no ze fuldu sub sa pedos e doe volvu e ve ataku.

Asku, e so ve dor; kiru, e vu trovor; klopu e so ve apror.

Den kelun askar ricar, e ki kirar trovar; e a ki klopar so aprar.

О sar ye un om inte vu, a ki la filyo askar pan, e il dor a il un petro ?

О es il askar un pesh, il dor a il un serpo ?

Es donk vu, gre vu mala, spar kom di regalos a va infanos, kanplue va cela Patro dor a ki lu askar ?

Dete tot bon kozos ke vu vur osunos fiu a vu, vu fiu same a zi : den tala lo lex e lo profetos.

Entru pel enga pordo : den larga lo pordo e ampla lo veo ki dukar a pero e mulunos ye entrar.

Den enga lo pordo, e enga lo veo ki dukar a viv, e pokunos it trovar.

Pargu da falsa profetos, ki venar a vu in vestos d’agno, mo ki ine sar lupos voraca.

Vu ze rikonor pe za frutos. Cu omos kolgar uv da spinos, о figos da karducos ?

Same shak bon arbo dar bon frut; mo un arbo putra dar mal frut.

Un bon arbo no par di mal frut, nor par un arbo putra di bon frut.

Kel bon arbo ki no dar bon frut sar sogat e jekat al fok.

Dete pe za frutos vu ze rikonor.

No shakun ki me dicar : Sinyor, Sinyor, entror nel cela royado, mo il ki far lo vol de ma Patro ki sar in cel.

Mulunos me dicor yenide : Sinyor, Sinyor, ar nos no profetat taname ?

in thy name ? and in thy name have cast out devils ? and in thy name done many wonderful works ?

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand :

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell : and great was the fall of it.

And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine :

For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

(Oxford University Press.)

« REQUIEM « OF VERDI AT PARIS’ ST. EUSTACHE By Jan Maguire

Paris, March 5. — Father Emile Martin, the Lamoureux Orchestra and the Saint Eustache Church Choir were at their best Thursday night in Verdi’s “Requiem,” held in the church. They were inspired by four soloists with vastly divergent origins but remarkably homogeneous conceptions of the work.

The four soloists were Luisa Maragliano, soprano, from La Scala Opera, Milan, Luben Mihailov, tenor, and Lilian Stephanovad, mezzo-soprano, from the Sofia Opera in Bulgaria and Leonardo Wolovsky, baritone, from the Berlin Opera. Although all of them possess first-rate solo voices, none of them took advantage of Verdi to exhibit their solo talents. They maintained the strictest respect for the ensemble and for the quality of the work. The result was a wide diversity of vocal qualities blended into a tastefully wellbalanced ensemble.

Luisa Maragliano showed a voluminous voice and a big vibrato at the beginning. Later, she showed how she could coax a pianissimo from nothing gently into the auditive field, with no vibrato whatsoever. The last segment of the work, “Libera Me,” brought out all the numerous degrees and shades in between of which Miss Maragliano was capable. Her use of her voice has the unusual combination of temperament and control.

Subject Mastered

Miss Stephanovad, who replaced Rita Gorr at the last minute, characterized her role by mastery of the subject matter. Her lovely vocal quality was made to serve her interpretative sense, and Verdi’s intention. The duet between the two women was the high point of the work.

Mr. Mihailov’s tenor was intense and capable of considerable variation. In keeping with the way of the other soloists, however, he sang for the sake of the ensemble.

Leonardo Wolovsky’s rich baritone voice provided the dark quality needed in the “Requiem.” His part is the most exacting of the four, and he apparently enjoyed the challenge. His pitch was infallible and spared us the passages where there is invariably a sour transition, in less capable performances. His self-assurance served as a solid base for the quartet.

e taname pelat dyablos ? e tапаше fat mul marva kozos ?

Mo dan mi zu dicor : Mi ni ve konir; giu veg da mi, vu ki komitar iniqados.

Dete kelun askoltar ma dicos e ze aplikar, mi le komparor a un vir saga, ki bildir sa dom on un rok.

E pluv shendir, e inondos venir, e ventos soplir, e kolpir lo dom, e lo dom no kadir; den it sir bildat on rok.

E kelun udar ma dicos e no ze aplikar sor komparat a un dumun ki bildir sa dom on sablo.

E pluv shendir, e inondos venir, e ventos soplir, e kolpir lo dom, e it kadir. E grana sir lo ruin.

E oxir, Jesu endinde sa diskorso, ke jensos sir impresat pe la doktrin;

Per il ensenir as somun anda autorit, e no as lo taxaleros.

(Neo-versyon pe D. S. B.)

« REQUIEM « DE VERDI IN ST. EUSTACHE PARISYE pe Jan Maguire ‘

Paris, qin Mars. — Patro Emile Martin, 1’Orkestro Lamoureux e lo Korgo del Klezo Saint Eustache ir sa melesta formo Jovnoxe nel “Requiem” de Verdi exekutat nel klezo. Zi sir inspirat pe qar solistos de tote def origos mo kon rimarkenda homogena koncepos del opro.

Lo qar solistos sir Luisa Maragliano dal Scala Opera de Milan, soprano, Luben Mihailov, tenor, e Lilyan Stephanovad, semi-soprano, del Sofia Opera Bulgarye e Leonardo Wolovsky, bariton, del Berlin Opera. Gre tos zi posedar primorda solo-vokos, nilun prenir vantago da Verdi po exibi sa talent de “solo”. Zi mentenir lo plu strikta respekt pol ento e pol qal del opro. Lo rizult sir un larga diverseso de voka qalos mixat in un bongusta ben-balansat ento.

Luisa Maragliano montrir un vok volumoza e un forta vibrato ense. Doe, el montrir kom el pir almeni un pianissimo da nilo dulke nel udo-kampo. Lo last fragment del opro, “Libera me” produkir tot numa grados e nuansos dey Darnel Maragliano sir kapabla. La uto de sa vok sir un nouza kombin de temprament e kontrol.

Subjek mastrat

Miss Stephanovad, ki riplasir lastminute Rita Gorr, karaktir sa rol pel mastrazo del subjek tratat. La delisa voka qal sir fat ut sirvi la interpreta senso, e l’intent de Verdi. Lo duet intel du femos sir l’alta punt del opro.

Sr Mihailov as tenor sir intensa e kapabla de konsideribla varyazo. Dok, se mentenande nel ton del osa solistos, il kantir pol ben del ento.

Lo rika bariton-vok de Leonardo Wolovsky prokurir lo darka qal nesa nel “Requiem”. La rol sar lo plu exijema intel qar, e il vidible godir lo sfido. La skalyo sir senpeka e ne sparir lo pasos vo so ar generale un bruska transiro in min perfa performos. La self-sekuremo sirvir as un solida bazo pol qartet.

(“New York Herald Tribune”, Paris, 6 mars 1965.) 103

ANTONIO FRADELETTO

Half a century ago I had the good fortune to have as my professor Antonio Fradeletto, a name that is known only in Italy; even in Italy few of those who live outside Venice remember the man. But in Venice his name is venerated; it is not forgotten that he it was who founded and animated the famous Art Fair, held biennially and now an affair of world-wide importance which adds its own luster, if this be possible, to a unique city.

Fradeletto was professor, deputy, senator and minister of state. Above all he was the greatest orator in the Italy of his time. However it is not to his titles I now pay my respects; but to the admirable qualities that made him the man he was.

Fradeletto was a foundling, abandoned at birth on the steps of the Hospital of Charity and brought up on public assistance; the child soon showed exceptional talent and as a result of the attention he drew by his special abilities as an adolescent his father offered him recognition and aid in following his studies; but the young man felt little honour at the delayed gesture from a father turned penitent and had the spirit to refuse the offers of family name and educational aid. He preferred to keep his foundling name — Venetian for “little brother” — and to set about adorning the name for himself.

It did not take long; hardly was adolescence over before the public lectures which he gave on the most varied subjects established him as a speaker of splendid reputation and great ability. Soon all the honours were to come his way, success coming when he was still very young. His activities spread to all fields of learning. No noble cause found him aloof or detached. And in first place was his love of Venice; like his friend, Richard Selvatico, poet and mayor, he felt an infinite tenderness in the depths of his being towards his beloved Venice.

Among my recollections of this exceptional teacher I still more or less remember the words he used in one of the addresses he gave us at the beginning of term : — “You who still have a patrimony of high ideals and whose youthful hearts can still echo the voice that reaches them from peaks of fine achievement, promise yourself this very moment to keep faith all along life’s path. It may not be easy — human destiny being, alas, beset by a need for compromise. But any of you who does manage to save his soul will later experience a thrill of proud joy at finding that his heart has remained young”.

These words, spoken by the Master in a powerful, vibrant voice, went straight to my heart and were inscribed there for ever. They have helped me many a time and certainly they helped to make life a real joy for me.

I too have now reached old age, but my thoughts still turn to my beloved teacher with deep feelings of gratitude.

(free translation into English by D.S.B.) Arturo Alfandari.

OPTIMISM OR PESSIMISM

The cynics of every day, negators of what is finest, impervious to the behest that we love our neighbour, these are the men who deride the optimists. They set up their Aunt Sally as if they needed to avenge themselves on the optimists for enjoying a happiness that is unknown to them themselves.

In an attempt to explain matters, they will tell you that the optimists are just silly folk looking at life beatifically through rose-tinted spectacles ; should one such happen to lose his spectacles, he would fall and break his neck.

But it is not so ; rather it is the contrary that happens; for the true optimist is not bereft of foresight; he has chosen his constructive way of life perfectly rationally, with a full knowledge of life’s shoddy tricks. He does foresee the hidden evil and he does seek to cope with it. The joy he has always known will remain with him to the end of life, and he remains happy at having loved his neighbour and at having spread happiness around him.

ANTONIO FRADELETTO

Mi ir lo canso d’i as profesor Venezye, yo dim seklo, Antonio Fradeletto

Et nam nokonat exe Italyo. E, uske Italye, exe Venezye, nur pokunos servar nok la soven.

Venezye, la nam nok venerat, e so no ye oblar k’il sir lo kreer e Palmer del fama Artos-Bianya, jat depdan un instituo de monda rison, ki adar nok, es eto posibla, al nokomparibla lustro d’et urbo unika mondye.

Fradeletto sir profesor, deputun, senator, ministro. II sir surte lo plu gran itala orator de sa temp.

Dok no a et titlos mi venar uldi oje, mo al vir selfa, al vir admirenda k’il sir.

Fradeletto sir un trovul. Abandonat je sa naso al pordo del Ospital della Piet&, elevat pe zorgo del Publasist, l’infan rivelir sun un exepa talent. Infolge, van lo rimarkenda qalos del adolun atirir atenso on il, la patro ofrir le rikoni e l’elpi forfolgi la studos; mo l’infan, ofendat pluye qam onorat pe un gesto tan tardema, rifuzir fyere amba elpo e nam d’et patro sodene penta, prifande servi sa nam de trovul (venezyale ‘Let Frat’) e it ilustri nur pe sa meritos.

Eto no tardir. Apene exat da adol, il ja eblir lo publo pe sa konferensos pril defesta subjekos, firmande ete sa gran qalos d’orator.

Sun il axedir a tot onoros e toyuna il konir glor. La aktiveso faktir on tot domenos, e nil kauzo nobla le lir indiferenta. Mo il sir pretote, as la amik Riccardo Selvatico,poet e mayor, lo gran inamorat de sa libVenezyo, po keo il sentir, nel ukocos de sa kor, un sarto senenda.

Inte lo sovenos d’et maestro nooblibla, mi servar lo d’un rentrado-diskorso, korse keo il ne dicir proxele eto : “Vu u ki nok intakta lo patrimon de yuno-ideal, e dey kor vibrar po to bela e elevat, ve promu des nun resti fidela a vuself korse lo veo de va viv. Eto no iza, lo destin d’om sande, vey, degeneri da kompromado a kompromado. Mo il ki riusor se salvi konor plu tarde lo joy e lo fyereso de retrovi in sa kor sa yuneso”.

Et vortos, pronuncat pel Maestro kon la bel vok posa e armona, gir rexe a ma kor e ye restir glifat po sem. Zi m’elpir in plul cirkonsos e kontribir certe me fi ami viv.

Oje, miself oldijat, mi adresar a ma lib Maestro un penso greda e emovat.

A. Alfandari.

OPTIMISMO E PESIMISMO

Semtempe lo spirtos cinika, negera de kel beleso e noaxedibla a proxamo mokir l’optimistos. Zi en fir sa kaprocef, as es zi vur se vengi de fakto ke zi vidar l’optimistos godi d’un ix ke ziself ni konor.

Zi eselar pleki eto dicande ke l’optimist sar un duma ki vidar beate viv sub un aspo iluda e ke belidyes il skopror l’absurdeso de viv, kador e se rompor lo kol.

Eh ben, tote lo kontra oxar.

Lo vera optimist no sar un beata noprevidema. Gre an il konar lo turpados de viv, il plenlucide elgar un viv-art konstruifa. II previdar lo mal e tralar ye pargi. II endar sa idos nel joy in keo il sem vivir, ixa aminde sa proxun e spansinde ix um so.

What has happened in the meantime to the cynic ? Often enough it is only by breaking with his natural inclinations from some sense of having to conform and to fit into his environment that he becomes cynical. He joins the ranks of the belittlers and do-lessers perhaps only from some fear of being scorned by his pals. When he does not end up as a suicide

which is really the logical end for him — he slips day by day downhill to ugly brooding and ugly looking ; complaints begin to pour out morning, noon and night as he hunts around in surroundings that are obscene, if not criminal, for a lifebelt to cling to.

Optimism and pessimism are an option. The choice, consciously made in youth, sets the orientation for the future. Pessimism leads to cynicism and on to destruction; optimism is constructive, achieving happiness for self and neighbour. Goethe has said that man’s first duty to his neighbour is himself to achieve inner happiness.

A correspondent reminds us that according to Heraclitus the world is made for the good and bad to coexist — and also, he concludes from this, the pessimist and the optimist; if so, we would surely pity the poor blighter who is doomed to complain and pour out his bile. But we ourselves, as optimists, can get on with the task of doing good and working

work being in itself a cardinal source of happiness. In thus choosing the path leading to Light and Joy, we put ourselves beyond the reach of being splashed by those who can only croak in their gloom and mud. (free translation into English by D.S.B.) A.

WALT WHITMAN

Many authors of the past make a strong appeal to some persons while they repel the attentions of others. But there is one author who has the peculiarity of being attractive or repulsive to the same persons at different periods of life, or condition, or even weather. There can be no consistency in the attitude to Walt Whitman; those who approach his work are thrilled by him today and disgusted by him tomorrow. It depends not so much on him as on themselves ; on whether they are young and eager or weary of life; on whether they are passing through certain moods or have ceased to have a particular experience ; on whether the sun is shining and they are out of doors or whether they sit in an armchair before the fire. Whitman is himself so various within definitely recurrent outlines, so uncompromisingly violent, that, as he stands before the reader in his blank nudity, it depends not on him so much as on the reader whether the aspect of him pleases or annoys, and in consequence we have the phenomenon of careful judges inspecting Whitman to-day and giving him the first prize, when tomorrow they will indignantly eject him from the category of competitors. It all depends on the reader himself — on his mood, on his physical state, on his accidental attitude to life. I know of no other writer who depends so much on our nerves and our digestion for the mode in which we welcome or repulse him.

Edmund Gosse.

PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF ENGLAND

On November 6, 1817, died Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England. Her short life had hardly been a happy one. By nature impulsive, capricious, and vehement, she had always longed for liberty; and she had never possessed it. She had been brought up among violent family quarrels, had been early separated from her disreputable and eccentric mother, and handed over to the care of her disreputable and selfish father. When she was seventeen, he decided to marry her off to the Prince of Orange; she, at first, acquiesced ; but, suddenly falling in love with Prince Augustus of Prussia, she determined to break off the engagement. This was not her first love affair, for she had previously carried on a clandestine correspondence with a Captain Hess. Prince Augustus was already married, morganat-ically, but she did not know it, and he did not tell her. While she was spinning out the negotiations with the Prince of Orange, the allied sovereigns

Ко oxar akontre al cinika ? Etun of tala in kontredico kon sa intima natur, pe un duma konformismo kol med ki I’umar. Pe pav de sa ,,kompa-nos”, il raligar lo negeros e lo nilferos. Van il no endar pe suicidi — lo ki po il fonde lo plu logika — il deskadar idide e jar 1’imago selfa de ladeso, gronande matinsere e kirande in obsheneso, van no in krim, un dispera rifugo.

Optimismo e pesimismo sar reale un opto, un elgo ke l’om far sape van il nok yuna. Et elgo decidar l’oryentazo de la viv. Lo pesimist jar cinika e delera; 1’optimist sar konstruifa e realar lo maxim d’ix po soself e po sa proxun.

Goethe dicir ke lo prim dov d’un om ver sa proxun sar si ixa.

Un korespondent ne ramemar ke les Eraklit lo mond sar tala ke lo mal shar ye koexisti kon ben. II en dedukar ke lo pesimistos shar ye koexisti kol optimistos.

Es ete, nos barmu lo pov pesimistos, kondanat groni e sekreli vinagro.

E nosself siu joya, nos laboru — labor lo prim sorgo d’ix — e nos fiu lo ben. Elgande Lum e Joy, nos sor exe portado del klabos del qasheros ki se delektar in skuro e fango.

A.

WALT WHITMAN

Mul pasea autoros sedukar somunos dun zi provokar lo ripulso d’osunos. Mo existar un autor ki ar lo pekuleso de plazi о diplazi al sam person in def periodos de viv, de kondis, uske de ved. Nil konsisto posibla nel atitud ver Walt Whitman ; zi ki abordar la opro sar tica po il oje e disgustat pe il kras. Eto dependar no tan da il qam da ziself; per zi yuna e sefa о lasa de vivi; per zi pasanda sert umoros о zi ju subir un sert erfaro; per lo solyo lucar e zi fridaere о zi sidat on un polto nir lo fok. Whitman ilself tan varya les oxa cirkonsos, tan notransigeme violenta, ke, van il star in sa blanka nudeso antel lekter, dependar no tan da il qam dal lekter ke la aspo plazar о nugar, e konseke nos ar lo fenomen de zorga jugeros exa-manda Whitman oje e danda a il lo prim premyo, e ki kras le ejekor indigne dal kategorio del kompeteros. To dependar dal lekter selfa, da la umor, da la fizika kondis, da la oxa atitud ver viv. Mi konar nilosa skriber ki tan dependar da na neuros о da na digest pol modo kom nos le benvenar о le ripushar.

Edmund Gosse.

PRINSIN SHARLOT D’ANGLO

Lo 6 novem, 1817, mortir Prinsin Sharlot, sol filin del Prinsregent, ed erederin del koron d’Anglo. La kurta viv sir apene ixa. D’impulsa, kaprica e vementa natur, el sem aspirinda ver frido, e el ni it posedinda. El edukinda inte violenta famil-qerelos, ir sat separat fru da sa malriputa e excentrika matro e porgat al kuro de sa malriputa e egoista patro. Van el sir issep, il decidir ley marli veg kol Prins d’Orango ; el prime yazir ; mo, inamande sodene Prins August de Pruso, el decidir rompi fidanso. Etun no sir la prim amor-aventur, den el price tenir un klandastena korespondo kon un Kapten Hess. Prins August sir ja morganmarlat, mo el no it spir, e il no dicir a el. Dun el duladir lo negosados kol Prins d’Orango, l’aligat sovranos. — sir Junyo, 1814 — arivir Londonye ut celebri sa vinko. Inte zi, nel folgo del Imperer de Rusio, sir lo yun e bel Prins Leopold de Sax-Koburg. II fir plul tentos po atiri l’atenso del Prinsin, mo el, kon sa kor osye, ye dir nil vik. Folgamese lo Prinsregent, — it was June, 1814 — arrived in London to celebrate their victory. Among them, in the suite of the Emperor of Russia, was the young and handsome Prince Leopold of Saxe-Goburg. He made several attempts to attract the notice of the Princess, but she, with her heart elsewhere, paid very little attention. Next month the Prince Regent, discovering that his daughter had secret meetings with Prince Augustus, suddenly appeared upon the scene and, after dismissing her household, sentenced her to a strict seclusion in Windsor Park. “God Almighty grant me patience!” she exclaimed, falling on her knees in an agony of agitation : then she jumped up, ran down the backstairs and out into the street, hailed a passing cab, and drove to her mother’s house in Bayswater. She was discovered, pursued, and at length, yielding to the persuasions of her uncles, the Dukes of York and Sussex, of Brougham, and of the Bishop of Salisbury, she returned to Carlton House at two o’clock in the morning. She was immured at Windsor, but no more was heard of the Prince of Orange. Prince Augustus, too, disappeared. The way was at last open to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

Lytton Strachey.

REDISCOVERED TREASURES OF PRAGUE CASTLE NOW ON VIEW

From Our Special Correspondent — Prague

The group of paintings at the London embassy of the United Arab Republic that were identified a few weeks ago as the work of Tiepolo, are a reminder of the ease with which even major works of art may be overlooked when they become “part of the scenery”. In an exhibition now being held at Prague Castle there are nearly 50 examples of the same phenomenon, many of them works by some of the greatest artists.

The exhibition has been arranged to acquaint the Czechoslovakian people with the astonishing results of the threeyear historical study of the Prague Castle Gallery that the Institute for the Theory and History of Art, led by Jaromir Neumann, undertook on the instructions of the Restoration Council of the Castle.

There are 74 works on show, many of them major paintings by such masters as Rubens, Tintoretto, Titian, and Veronese, that have not been correctly attributed for several centuries. Some of these paintings were languishing in the darkness of the storerooms of Hraddany Castle, and months of patient study and restoration were needed before their origins could be traced.

Most of the paintings in the present exhibition, however, come into the same category of neglected masterpieces as the Tiepolos in London. Nearly two-thirds of them have, in fact, been hanging for years in the halls, staircases, offices, and galleries of the rambling building that dominates the city, with no more than a cursory glance during the annual inventory.

To the officials who have lived and worked in Hradcany over the years, many of these paintings must have come to seem part of the furniture. Major works by Veronese, Tintoretto, and Rubens, for example, have been hanging modestly on the castle walls, long erroneously described as “From the Studio of Bassano”. „Anonymous Painter of the 17th Century”, and “By an Unknown Aristist”. And, although it reveals others, it is this “mislaid masterpieces” aspect of the Prague Exhibition that most readily captures the imagination.

The story of the Prague Castle collection is long and eventful. It began with the Thirty Years War, when Swedish troops carried off most of the paintings and objects of art that were held in Hradcany. When the war ended in 1648. Ferdinand III set about restoring the collections and at the sale of the Duke of Buckingham’s pictures at Antwerp the same year no fewer than 100 paintings were bought for Prague.

The Hraddany Collection continued to grow during the remaining years of the century until, by the year 1700, the King of Bohemia could boast a vast collection of many hundreds of valuable canvases.

But hardly had the century turned than the first transfers of paintings from Prague to Vienna—the new capital of the Habsburgs—took place.

skoprande ke sa filin ir sekra inkontros kon Prins August, parsir sodene ol shen, e, kongedinde la personeyo, ley kondanir a un strikta riklud in Windsor Park. “Deo Toposa me diu duldo”, el exklamir, kadande ol zunos in un detro d’ajit; dan el resaltir, shendir kurse lo skal, exir nel veo, rufir un кос ki pasir, e kursir ver lo dom de sa matro in Bayswater. El sir skoprat, persekat, e ende, cedande al suados de sa onklos, Duxos de York e Sussex, de Brougham e del Vesko de Salisbury, el bakir a Carlton House a du ma tine. El sir rikludat in Windsor, mo so udir plu nilo dal Prins d’Orango. Prins Augustus diparsir an. Lo veg sir ende apra pol Prins Leopold de Sax-Koburg.

Lytton Strachey.

RESKOPRAT TRESOROS NEL PRAHA KASTEL NUN VIDIBLA

Da na specala korespondent — Praha.

Lo grup del kadros del Arab-Republik-Ambasado identat yopokvekos as opro de Tiepolo sar un segno kan mesme maja artopros par si submirat van zi jar “part dcllandel”. In un expon nun prezentat nel Praha Kastel, ye с qinis exemplos del sam fenomen, plulunos de som granesta artistos.

L’expon sir ordelat ut konadi al Cekoslovaka poplo l’astonifa rizultos del treanya istora studo del Praha Kastel Galerio ke l’lnstitut d’Art-Teorio- e Istor, derkat pe Jaromir Neumann, emprenir les instruos del Restor-Konselyeo del Kastel.

Ye 74 opros exponat, dey somunos maja kadros de tal maestros as Rubens, Tintoretto, Tiziano e Veronese, ki no sinda korekte atribat dun plul seklos. Somunos d’et kadros langir nel skuro del rizervos del Hraddani Kastel, e mesos de dulda stud e restor sir nesa pre za origo pir si diskelat.

Plus kadros del nuna expon, dok, entrar nel sam kategorio de neglat cefopros as los Tiepolo de London. Cir du trimos de zi, fakte, pendir dun anyos nel atryos, skalos, kontoros e galerios del senorda bildo ki domenar l’urbo, kon no plu qam un asta miro dun l’anya inventor.

Al funseros ki dun anyos vivir e laborir in Hraddani, mul d’et kadros certe parir as part del mobleyo. Maja opros de Veronese, Tintoretto e Rubens, po exemplo, sir modeste pendanda ol kastel-muros, erore atribat as “Dal Skol de Bassano”, “Anonima Pinter del 17a seklo” e “Pe un nokonat Artist”. E, gre eto rivelar osa aspektos, sar, lo d’et “egarat cefopros” del Praha Expon ki ilke kolpar l’imagin.

L’istor del Praha Kastel longa e evenplena. It ensir kol Treisanya Guer, van lo Sveda trupos asportir plus kadros e art-objekos ki sir in Hraddany. Van lo guer endir in 1648, Ferdinand III emprenir restori lo kolexos, e, nel samanya vendo Antwerpye del kadros del Dux de Buckingham, no min qam 100 kadros sir kofat po Praha.

Lo Hraddany Kolex kontinuir kreski dul folga anyos del seklo us, ver l’anyo 1700, lo Roy de Boemyo pir vanti un vasta kolex de mul ekos de presya telos.

Mo, apene lo seklo volvir, lo prim transferos de kadros da Praga a Wien — lo nuv cefurbo de los Habsburg — lokedir. Et perioda tranferos, dun

These periodic transfers, during which many hundreds of works were removed from the Prague gallery, continued off and on up to the end of the nineteenth century.

The state of the once-proud Prague Castle collection was now bad enough in all conscience. The picture was further darkened by the numerous errors and blanks that had crept into the inventories in the course of time. Many of the best things had, of cousre, gone to Vienna. Many others had been sold to the Dresden Court and to Munich. But Professor Neumann’s research into the documents and catalogues of the past two centuries has made it abundantly clear that a large number of valuable canvases had in fact remained in Prague, unknown to the authorities.

Scholars may find this faulty cataloguing in Prague lamentable. But it is clear that, had the records been kept more carefully, many of these works would have shared the fate of the bulk of the collection, either under the Habsburgs or a few years later when the nazis occupied Czechoslovakia. Nothing of note was stolen from the Prague Castle collection after about 1860 for the simple reason that no one, either in Prague or elsewhere, thought there was anything left that was worth stealing.

When a detailed survey of the castle’s contents was ordered a few years ago, it was undertaken—at least so far as the paintings were concerned— more with the idea of listing what little was left than with the hope of any important discoveries. Yet discoveries soon began to be made. Professor Neumann and his team of archivists, restorers, and research workers traced the history of these neglected works back through centuries of conflicting catalogue entries. They subjected the canvases themselves to X-ray and ultra-violet photography, they removed overpainting and restored them, analysed paint samples and pondered over compositional patterns.

The result is now bringing the citizens of Prague flocking to the castle to file proudly past a number of fine paintings by great masters, most of which have never been seen in public before. It is a remarkable demonstration that, although the number of Rembrandts languishing forgotten and unrecognized in family lofts is now probably very limited, the same may not necessarily be true of official storage depots. The Prague experience leads one to hope that there may still be treasure-houses of the arts lying neglected and ignored, awaiting the restorer and archivist.

MAUGHAM TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Doctor Anxious Over Lung Congestion

By Reuters

Nice, March 5.—W. Somerset Maugham, 91-year-old British author who is suffering from congestion of the lungs, was taken to the Anglo-American Hospital in Nice today.

Mr. Maugham’s secretary, Alan Searle, travelled with him in the ambulance from his villa at nearby St.-Jean-Cap Ferrat, hospital officials said.

Mr. Searle said earlier today that the author’s condition was “fairly bad, I’m afraid.”

Mr. Maugham’s doctors had said yesterday that they would not move him from his villa to the hospital because of his age and state of helath. This decision was changed this morning, Mr. Searle said.

Quiet Night

Mr. Maugham had spent a quiet night and his condition remained unchanged today, one member of his household said.

Two nurses called in yesterday were at his bedside at the Villa Mauresque throughout the night.

keos mul ekos d’opros sir asportat dal Praha galerio, kontinuir temtempe us l’endo del isnona seklo.

Lo stando del priske fyera Praha Kastel sir dan verdice asay mala. Lo stando sir inotre gravat pel numa eroros e gafos inat nel inventoros korse lo temp. Mul del mela kozos ir gat, nature, Wienve. Mul osas sir vendat al Kort de Dresden e a Munik (Miinchen) Mo lo kiro de Profesor Neumann nel dokumentos e katalogos del last du seklos provir abonde k’un gran num de vala telos fakte restir in Praha, nokonat pel autoritos.4

Som studeros trovor et erora katalogazo de Praha lamentenda. Mo klara ke, es lo listos tenat plu zorge, plul d’et opros ur partat lo suerto del fondo del kolex, au sub los Habsburg au, som anyos doe, van lo nazi’s okupir Cekoslovakio. Nilo vika sir furtat dal Praha-Kastel kolex do с 1860 pol simpla grun ke nilun, in Praha, о osye, pensir ye restir somo furt-vala.

Van un detala inspekto del konten del kastel ordonat yosomanyos, so emprenir — pomine asdus it koncernir kadros — plu kol ideo de listi lo poko ki restir qam kol spero de kel vika skopros. Dok sun so ensir skopri. Profesor Neumann e la eqip d’arkivistos, restoreros, e kireros tracir l’istor d’et neglat opros bake tru seklos de kontredica katalog-indikos. Zi submitir lo telos selfa a X-rados e ultravyola fotografio, zi tulir surpinto e ze restorir, analisir pinto-samplos e riflektir on kompon-tipos.

Lo rizulto nun aportar civanos de Praha afluanda al kastel ut fildi fyere ante un num de bel kadros de gran maestros, dey plusunos ni vidat puble pree. Eto un rimarkenda demontro ke, gre lo num de los Rembrandt laganda oblat e norekonat in famil-ukos probable muy limitat, lo sama no nese vera pri oficala rizervo-deponos. L’experiment de Praha dukar al spero ke existar nok art-tresoros-domos neglat ki atendar lo restorer e l’arkivist.

(“The Times”, 22 mars 1965.)

MAUGHAM PORTAT OSPITALYE Doktor ansa pri pulma kongestyon

(“Reuter”)

Nis, qin mars. — W. Somerset Maugham, 91 anya brita autor, sofranda pe pulma kongestyon, sir portat oje al Anglamerika Ospital Nisye.

Lo sekrer de Mr. Maugham, Alan Searle, travelir kon il da la vilyo nir St.-Jean-Cap Ferrat, funseros del ospital dicir.

Mr. Searle dicir oje pree ke lo stando del autor sir “asay mala, mi timar”.

Lo doktoros de Mr. Maugham dicir yer, zi no vir le movi da la vilyo ospitalye kauze la ajo e la sanstando. Et decid sir kambat etmatine, Mr. Searle dicir.

Nox kalma

Mr. Maugham pasir un nox kalma e la stando restir senkamba, un membro de la doma personeyo dicir. Du nursinos apelat yer stir la-cefenye nel Villa Mauresque entanoxe.

The author’s lung congestion followed an attack of influenza which occurred last Tuesday.

Dr. Georges Rozanoff said earlier that Mr. Maugham’s condition improved a little yesterday after he came out of a coma, but that it was giving some anxiety today.

“His heart is holding up well but the condition of his lungs has become aggravated, hence the precaution to take him to the hospital.”

MR. STEWART ARRIVES IN AMERICA Report on talks with Mr. Gromyko Meeting with President

From Our Own Correspondent

Washington, March 21

Mr. Michael Stewart, the Foreign Secretary, who arrived in New York today, is due here later to report on his recent talks with Mr. Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister, and to coordinate Anglo-American policies in a number of potential crisis areas. Perhaps most important of all, he comes to establish his own identity in a city where he is virtually unknown.

Amid all the Voskhods, Gemini and Vietnamese air raids, not to mention the replay of the Civil War in Alabama, the public is unlikely to be very attentive, but the State Department is in a more contemplative mood and will listen well.

It is less likely to be responsive to any discreet probings by Mr. Stewart about the future course of American policy in South Vietnam. President Johnson, whom Mr. Stewart is also expected to see, is the only source for such pronouncements and the evidence is that he prefers to talk about present policy. This, he repeated at a news conference at his Texas ranch yesterday, is a policy of taking whatever military action is considered necessary to repel aggression from the north.

WORLD’S FAREWELL TO CHURCHILL Quiet burial after solemn ritual of a State Funeral

The body of Sir Winston Churchill was buried yesterday afternoon in the churchyard at Bladon, Oxfordshire.

After the State funeral, with all the public ritual of Britain paraded to attend his body in and out of the City of London, with the Queen at the funeral service, he was buried in a quiet and country ceremony.

Village boys carried the cross and candles that met the coffin at the lych-gate and the vicar read the burial service, which was attended by the family and close friends.

The church, a bare, Gothicised hall, casts its shadow over the plot where Churchill’s father and mother lie. His grave was dug in the last empty space at the head of theirs, alongside the path. The headstones here are plain and unassertive. There is no room for magnificence.

The graveyard stands on a small hill, at the edge of a village street. Churchill chose it for himself and it lies within sight of his birthplace.

After nearly a third of a million people had queued in the cold beside the Thames, and walked in silence past the catafalque in Westminster Hall, the body was taken to St Paul’s Cathedral. At 9.35 a.m. eight Grenadier Guardsmen emerged, struggling a little under the weight of the great coffin made out of oak grown on the Blenheim estate. Big Ben struck 9.45 as the procession started off, and for the rest of the day stayed silent.

Seven thousand troops were on parade, lining the route or in the procession. The cumbrous gun-carriage that had carried Queen Victoria’s

Lo pulma kongestyon del autor folgir un influenso-atak ki oxir pastud.

Dr Georges Rozanoff dicir pree ke lo stando de Mr. Maugham melir epe yer do il exinda da un komyo, mo k’il kauzir som anso oje.

“La kor rezistar ben mo lo stando de la pulmos gravir, unde lo prekauto de le porti ospitalve.”

(New York’Herald Tribune, Paris 6-7 Mars 1965).

MR. STEWART ARIVAR AMERIKYE Raport pril konversos kon Sr Gromiko Inkontro kol President

(Da na prop Korespondent.)

Washington, 21 Mars.

Mr. Michael Stewart, lo Xenministro, ki arivir New Yorkye oje, expektat ik plu tarde ut raporti pri sa ricenta konversos kon Sr Gromiko, Sovyet-Xenministro, e ut koordi l’Anglamerika politik pri plul posala krizo-terenos. Forse lo vikesta, il venar establi sa prop idento in un civ vo il pratike nokonat.

Inte tot Voskhodos, Geminis e Vyetnama er-redos, sen mensyoni lo ripo del Civil-guer in Alabama, lo publo probable no atensor mul, mo lo Xen-ministrado (Xendepart) ar un plu kontempla umor e askoltor ben.

It probable sor min sensibla a kel diskreta presyon de Mr. Stewart pril futura korso del amerika politik Vyetnamye. President Johson, ke Mr. Stewart an vidor, sar lo sol sorgo po tal deklos e l’indikos sar k’il prifar parli pril nuna procedo. Etun, il ripir preskonferensye in sa Texasranc yer, lo procedo de fakti kel militar aktado nesa ut ripushi un agredo da Nord.

(“The Times”, London, 22 mars 1965.)

MONDA ADEO A CHURCHILL

Qeta interado do solena rit d’un stata funeral

Lo spolal de Sir Winston Churchill sir interadat yerdomide nel paxaro de Bladon, Oxfordshire.

Dol Stata Funeral, kon l’enta Brita rit po folgi la spolal ine e exe lo Civ de London, kol Roin al funa sirvo, il sir interadat pe un qeta e kampana ceremon.

Dorf-boyos portir lo kruz e kandelos ki akolgir lo sargo paxar-limenye, e lo vikaryo lektir l’interado-sirvo, adsat pel famil e intim-amikos.

Lo klezo, un nuda gotikema bildo, jekar sa ombro ol partel vo l’eltros de Churchill lagar. La tombo sir nel last frida plas cefe lo zia, longale lo vegel. Tot ika tomba petros simpla e modesta. Nil plas ik po magnifikeso.

Lo paxaro star on un let bergel, al limit d’un dorf-veo. Churchill elgir it po soself, e it star in vido-kampo da la naslok.

Do un milyontrim jensos fildinda in frigo longale lo Tamis e marcinda sile dre lo katafalk in Westminster Hall, lo spolal sir portat al Katedral San Paul. A 9.35 am. ot Gardogrenaderos surgir, epe fexanda sub lo pezo del gran sargo fat kon kerko kreskat nel domen de Blenheim. Big Ben sonir a 9.45 van lo procesyon startir, e pol rest del id silir.

Sepmil trupviros paradir longale lo rut о nel procesyon. Lo kombra fuston, ki ir portat lo sargo de Roin Viktorya, portir lo ila, tirat pe ma-coffin carried his, dragged by naval ratings. Vast and silent crowds stood in the raw cold to watch the slow progress up “Whitehall, through Trafalgar Square, up the Strand and Fleet Street, to St Paul’s.

Patrick O’Donovan.

FRUITFUL OR STERILE POLITICS?

This week’s business in the Commons opens with debates on consecutive days on the two subjects which, most observers found, bulked largest in the minds of urban voters during last autumn’s general election, housing and immigration. Yet paradoxically, respected voices are raised in the demand that these highly political issues be “taken out of politics”. If this means that a truce should be called to party disagreement over housing and immigration, and that those responsible for policy or concerned with the formation of opinion should concentrate instead on certain principles and their applications on which all well-informed, well-disposed people are supposed to be able to agree, then the demand must be thought to betray some misunderstanding about the nature of democratic politics and of the subjects under discussion.

Free politics arise out of opposition of interests and the clash of views. They work towards the resolution of these differences, not by assuming that an identity of interest can always be achieved nor by seeking to remove all basis of disagreement, but by reconciliation and compromise according to customary or acceptable procedures. If that is so, it is both unrealistic and unprofitable to ask that as soon as an area of policy becomes explosive or requires drastic action it should be promoted to a political Olympus where dwell the beneficent deities, All the Talents, National Coalition, True Patriots, and such demigods as Men of the Centre, and Radicals of All Parties.

In a weaker sense, however, the demand that housing and immigration be “taken out of politics”, though awkwardly expressed, is a valid protest against present dangers. The tensions, prejudices, and hostility inseparable from the settlement of foreign immigrants in any numbers, especially those remote in physical characteristics and social customs from an insular European nation, are open to exploitation in the interest of political power, local or national. To ask for an abatement of politics in this connexion is not to ask that argument should cease or party disagreements be submerged; but that policies be advocated and criticized with honest motives, with proper moderation, and with a responsible sense of the dreadful consequences that could flow from any serious mishandling or aggravation.

CONTINENTAL BOURSES STRONG RECOVERY ON MILAN

European bourses were a mixed bag last week, ranging from very firm to very much easier.

Milan took pride of place, with many issues scoring new highs for the year. The uptrend started as a technical reaction which met some profit-taking. But even a modest revival of investment demand late in the holiday-shortened week resulted in prices finishing some 30 per cent over the low points recorded so far in 1965.

Conversely, Zurich was hit by professional profit-taking combined with a good deal of hesitancy by investors who were anticipating higher loans and who were worried about the increasing effects of the anti-inflation measures. Here, prices fell to their worst levels for some six months.

Another centre to make a poor showing was Frankfurt, where shares eased almost continuously throughout the week, local operators declaring that foreign selling orders were responsible. Both Amsterdam and Paris were somewhat dull and hesitant; internationals quoted on the former

rineros. Vasta e sila fulos stir nel ruda frigo po adsi lo lenta progredo tru White Hall, Trafalgar Square, lo Strand e Fleet Street, ver San Paul.

Patrick O’Donovan (“The Observer”, London, 31 Janar 1965.)

FRUTIFA О STERILA POLITIK?

L’etveka okup nel Komunyos ensar pe plulida debatos pri du subjekos ki, as plus abserveros trir, pezir pluse nel mentos del urba voteros dun lo last-ersa general-elektos : lojo e imigro. Dok, paradoxe, respektat vokos se elevar askanda k’et alte politika qestyonos siu “dusat da politik.” Es eto mindar k’un trev sbur si askat nel partedos-malakordos pri lojo e imigro, e ke lo responsablas pril konduk о pril formazo del opin shur akontre koncentrisi pri sert principos e za aplikazo, pri ко tot beninformat e bondispona jensos sar putat akordenda, dan l’exijo shar si putat rivelan-da som malkomprenos pril natur de demokrata politik e del subjekos debatat.

Frida politik surgar da opon d’interesos e da urto d’opinos. It aktar ver lo solvo d’et defos, no pel prezum k’un idento d’interesos par si atangat, о kirande dusi kel bazo de malakordo, mo pe rekonsil e kompromado les uza о axeptibla procedur. Es ete, sar ambe norealista e noprofitifa aski ke, des un procedo-teren jar explodifa о nesar drastika aktado, it shur si promovat a un politika Olimpo vo lo benifa deos vivar. Tot Talentos, Nasyona Koalizo, Vera Patriotos, e tal semideos as Viros del Centro о totparteda Radikalas.

Dok, in un senso plu liva, l’asko ke lojo e imigro siu “dusat da politik”, gre malable expresat, sar un protest valida kontrel nuna dangos. Lo tensos, prejudisos e ostilados noseparibla dal instalazo de kelnuma xena imigreros, specale d’eos remota pe fizika karaktalos e socala uzos da un europa isla nasyon, se ofrar al explotazo nel interes de loka о nasyona politika poso. Aski un minazo de politik etrigarde no mindar aski l’argument cesu о lo partedos-malintendos siu submergat; mo lo procedos siu defendat о kritikat kon onesta motivos, kon propala modereso e kon un senso responsabla del afra konsekos ki derivur da un serya maltrato о pizazo.

(“The Times”, London, 22 mars 1965.)

KONTINENTA BURSOS GRAN RIKUPERO Ml LAN YE

Europa Bursos sir pasveke un mix, ganda da muy firma a mul deblira.

Milan prenir l’onor-plas, kon mul titlos markanda nuv cimos pol anyo. Lo monta mov ensir as un tekna reakto ki inkontrir som profitprenos. Mo mesme un modesta ravelyo del investo-asko ende lo vek kurtat pe un fest-id butir a presyos endanda 30 proek sure lo basesta puntos markat usnun in 1965.

Akontre, Zurich sir kolpat pe profitprenos kombinat kon un sert ezit del investeros, ki previdir plu alta lonos, e ki sir nugat pel kreska efektos del anti-inllada disponados. Ye, presyos kadir al basesta nivos del last sit mesos.

Unosa centro exibir un pova spekto, Frankfurt, vo lo titlos deblir fas kontinue dun lo vek, loka opereros atribande lo kauzo a xena vendos. Amba Amsterdam e Paris sir pluye morna e ezita. L’internasyonas qotat nel prima d’et merkados rispekir lo movos de Wall Street, dun Paris sir market reflected Wall Street movements, while Paris was unsettled ahead of Government measures which are expected to include company reforms.

WEST EUROPE’S GROWTH RATE SLACKENING, U.N. REPORT SAYS

By the Associated Press

Geneva, March 26. — Western Europe continued its economic expansion during 1964 but there are signs that growth rates may slacken this year, according to a United Nations report released today.

The Economic Commission for Europe said that the future depends on the problems now facing Britain, France and Italy.

The French and Italian governments were forced to clamp down on the growth of demand and output last year because of inflation in 1963 and there has not been any sign of revival, the report said.

Economic difficulties in the United Kingdom culminated in a record balance-of-payments deficiency and the report forecast that current trends and policies will not improve the situation “in\the foreseeable future.”

It added that Britain must boost its exports to correct the situation. “Те strengthen the export bias permanently means to change habits and attitudes as well as price and profit relationships, and this will not be done quickly,” it warned.

“But only if this can be done will the United Kingdom move into a phase of sustained growth.”

LETTRE A MES AMIS

(1958, Brussels).

June 8th,1958 “Junior fui et etiam senui.”

My dear friends,

Today I am celebrating joyfully my 70th birthday.

Having come to the evening of my life, which for the greater part took place during a tumultuous and blood-stained period in history, I find myself embarrassed at recognising — as I cast my eyes back over the years — that I view it with feelings that are wholly imbued with happiness.

Like all men, I too have experienced the cruel blows of adversity; nor could I avoid sharing in the misfortunes of others.

Yet, in spite of adversity and suffering and in spite of a sense of shame and spiritual abasement at having been only a spectator in an age of confusion and intolerance, I have been infinitely happy — and am so even today.

Each day of my life since childhood I felt happy at being alive; even today, from moment to moment, I discover themes to interest me — and always with eyes of youthful wonder. Other men — just as favoured as I was or more so — could find in their whole existence nothing but a reason for complaining and blasphemy.

It is from a heart filled with gratitude at my good fortune that this message is addressed to you in the firm conviction that happiness can be communicated. However unimportant personally I may be, the fact is that I did succeed in being happy ; this ought to provide encouragement for other men.

When I reached my 55th year I had the temerity to promise myself — and even to put down in writing — that if God saw fit to grant me

sendecida ante lo governa disponados expektat inkludi Kompanio riformos.

(“The Times”, 22 mars 1965)

WESTEUROPA KRESKO-RAX DEBLANDA, U.N. RAPORT DICAR

Genev, 26 mars. Westeurop kontinuir sa ekonoma spanso dun 1964, mo ye segnos ke kresko-raxos pur debli etanye, les un raport del Unat Nasyonos publat oje.

L’Ekonoma Komisyon po Europ dicir ke aven dependar dal problemos ki nun frontar Brit, Franso e Italyo.

Lo fransa e itala governos sir obligat kompresi lo kresko d’asko e produk pasanye kauzel 1963a inflado, e ye sir nil segno de ravelyo, lo raport dicir.

Ekonoma dufos Britye kulmir in un rekord del pagos-balanso deficit e lo raport previdar ke lo korsa tensados e dukados no melor lo situo “nel previdibla futur”.

It adir ke Brit shar stimuli sa exportos ut mendi lo situo. “Forti export - tensado permane mindar kambi uzos e atitudos asben lo politik de presyos e profit, e eto no oxor rapide”, it avertar.

“Mo nur es eto fat Brit movor ver un fazo de konsista kresko.”

(New York Herald Tribune, Europ. Ed., 27 mars 1965.)

BRIF A MA AMIKOS

8 Junyo 1958.

“Junior fui et etiam senui.” Yuna mi sir e ja mi oldir.

Ma lib amikos, Mi oje festar joye ma sepisa nasid.

Arivat al ser de ma viv, ki esvolvir granparte dun un del plu tumulta e sanga periodos del istor d’omeyo, mi fas zenat avedi ke, van mi jekar un rirmir on ma long paseo, mi it vidar ente onat pe un sento d’ix.

As tot omos, mi subir lo kruel kolpos d’adverso. E mi ni pir m’impedi parpreni an al maloxos d’osunos.

Dok, gre adversado e sofros, grel ont e lo vilazo spektinde un epok de maltolereso e skurismo, mi sir un vir senende ixa, e mi sar it nok.

Shak id de ma viv, dep ma infaneso, mi sentir 1’ix d’existi. Mi nok shakin-stante skoprar, e sem kol marvat aston de ma yuneso, subjekos d’interes, dunke osunos, as favorat as mi es no plude, no spir trovi in sa enta exist oso qam motiv po gronos e blasfemos.

Sar pe gredo ver ma suerto ke mi venar ve adresi et mesajo, konvinkat k’ix komunikifa. Kan senvika ma person par si, lo fakto ke mi riusir si un vir ixa shar konstitui un koragifa exemplo.

Van mi atangir ma 55a anyo, mi ir l’ozo de me promi, e uske de skribi ke, es Bondeo benvur me koncedi nok isqin anyos de viv, et last isqin anyos another fifteen years of life, this closing period would be for me the happiest of all. I have now won my rash bet — though these years too carried their full share of adversity, even to the most cruel degree.

How could such a paradox be realised ? just because true happiness cannot be eradicated ; my happiness is within me and has been my faithful, inseparable companion. It never leaves me — and I have never betrayed it.

If only you will set your mind to the task — and happiness does depend partly on a willingness to train for it — you perceive how easy it is to be happy; and happy even to the stage when the grumblers who take no account of their being themselves the builders of their misfortunes begin to think happiness is just stupidity, saying you cannot be happy unless you are a fool.

Well, perhaps they are right, since at bottom the formula for happiness consists of proverbs heard in childhood; yet in them is hidden all true wisdom. Let me give you three of them; they are old as civilisation but in them you will find the freshness of early Spring — as soon as you will allow them to imbue and become part of your very being.

Love your neighbour sincerely ; make an effort for this love to go deep down within you and not remain superficial; and then you will have discovered the dayspring of joy from which to drink happiness.

Be of good humour and smile; again effort is needed if the good intention is to be carried right through to real being.

Whether as part of your employment or not, seek out some work that you like doing — no matter how humble — and exert yourself to lavish on it all your idealism and creativity; and in this way you will map out your path through life. Even those who are disinherited in their lives can choose as their creative aim, for example, the endowing of some village with a wooden bench for public use. The day this aim is reached, joy at the accomplishment of a mission will be felt; for the bench will bear witness that not in vain did they live.

And that is all; just sincere neighbourly love, some good humour and a useful task you like doing; but on the day when these three rules become part of your inner nature you will see the good side of life and all will be transfigured in your eyes. No more will you know vexation and boredom — no more feel all that they engender in bitterness of spirit.

You will feel the happiness that comes from just being alive and thinking. Even the simple ability to understand the meanings of words can become a voyage of discovery; each word reveals to us a never-ending panorama of meaning and this in itself is one good reason for our feeling proud and happy.

If I were asked to give school children a theme for their composition exercise I might sometimes choose just one word — the first that entered my mind — since each word has the power to inspire us to thought.

But first a word in your ear : reflect on the disasters that could conceivably follow from some thoughless deed by any one of us, and then you will become more indulgent towards the failings that you notice in others.

Dostoyevski has said : “The executioner lurks within every one of our contemporaries” ; and these “contemporaries” belong to all time.

And now that I have reached 70 and passed by a wide margin the normal life-expectancy at birth — which for me was no more than some 40 years — I give thanks to Providence and to all who have loved me and shown kindness.

“Habui partem meam”, I have had my share of life’s gifts; and now I greet each new day as an extra gift. For all of you I have only one wish to utter : that you may attain to a perfect peace of mind and that when you reach my age you may be just as happy as I am now.

But do not forget : more important than doctors for preserving health are good humour and smiling.

Some recipients of this letter may feel surprise at hearing themselves named my friends; but indeed they are my friends — all of them and even without their knowing it; for it detracts no whit from the true value of the friendship of those nearest to me when I assert that all men are my friends, believers and unbelievers, good and bad, the rich — and more especially the poor.

sur po mi lo plu ixas.

Mi ganir ma insolenta sfido.

E dok et anyos me aportir an zi sa part d’adversados, intel plu kruelas.

Kom pir realisi et paradoxa fakto ?

Simple per vera ix sar un kozo nodelibla : ma ix sar in mi, it ma kompan fidela e noseparibla. It ni me kitir, mi it ni trazir.

Es so se ye drilar — e ix sar parte un qestyon de dri\ — so akorgar ke so par si ixa muy ize, uske tan ize ke l’unkas, zenat pe et izeso, no kontarsar ke ziself Fautoros de sa malix, konfuzar ix kon dumeso, e gar us dici ke so no par si ixa sen si dumcla.

Zi forse raga, pes fonde lo formulos d’ix sar nur infanema komunlogos. In et komunlogos dok star vera sago.

Mi v’en enuncor tre, olda as lo mond, mo ki retrovor lo nuveso e lo freskeso de primaver des vu or konsentat v’en penetri e en fi va substanso :

vu amu sincere va proxun. Vu fiu un esfort ut et amor penetru profonde in vu e no siu surfaca. Vu ye skopror lo prim sorgo de joy e ye bevor ix ;

Vu samtempe or pelat da va kor lo last tracos del yora egros ke sar isko e od.

vu siu bonumora e ridelu. An ik vu fiu un esfort ut eto no restu nur un intent, mo se traduku in realeso;

nel okupos a keos vu astringat о exe zi, vu kiru un labor ke vu libar, askan umila it pur si, e vu tasku ye poni som ideal e kreo, mode vu pur marki va paso on ter. Lo seo plu senereda par fixisi as skop de sa viv doti sa dorfol kon un publa olsobenko. L’id van il or realat et vozo, il sentor lo joy d’i kumpat sa misyon. Lo benko testor k’iZ no vivir po nilo : “ne frustra vixisse videar”.

Em to : sincera proxamo, bonumor e un labor utila ke vu libar. Et tre reglos, l’id van vu en or vere fat va substanso, transfiguror to a va okos e ve for vidi lo bel elto de viv.

Vu noplue konor nugo, nor lo malifa bezon de derivifas k’it genar.

Vu sentor l’ix ke star in simple si e in pensi. Lo simpla fakolt de kapi lo senso del vortos, dey shakun ne skoprar un orizon senenda, sar ja un grun po sentisi fyera e ixa.

Es mi sur mandat po di subjekos de tem a alevos, mi prenur somyes un sol vort, e lo primvenat, tan shakun de zi par ne fi pensi.

Nok un konselet laze al orel : vu pensu al mal ke shakun de nos ur pat fi oxe, e siu indulga al falos d’osunos.

Dostoyevski dicir : “L’instintos de martirist existar in jermo in shakun de na samptempanos.” Et “samtempanos” sar tottempa.

Nun ke mi atangir ma 70 anyos, e ke mi dadus depasir lo spero de viv ke mi ir van mi nasir — lo medya vivodur sir yenepoke 40 anyos — mi adresar ma dankos a Providenso e a zi ki me amir e me fir beno.

“Habui partem meam”, mi ir ma part. Mi salutar shak nuv id as un bel regal me fat. E po vu tos mi formular nur un vozo : vu atangu perfa almo-sereneso e vu si maaje as ixa as mi nun.

E vu no oblu ke ridel e bonumor ve elpor nokmele qam medikeros po servi bon san.

Som destinaryos d’et brif sor astonat se udande nami ma amikos. Fakte zi it sar tos, uske es sensape, den, sen ete mini lo val del amikeso de los ki me plu proxa, tot omos ma amikos, lo krederas e lo nokrederas, lo bonas e lo malas, lo rikas e surte lo povas.

And let me add, even as Walt Whitman did : it is not only those who are alive but all men of the past and all yet to be born that I greet as my brothers.

And now I drink to the beauty that shines from the eyes of all pretty women and to the happiness that can shine from your own.

Your friend,

(free translation into English by D.S.B.) Arturo Alfandari.

II. - POETRY

LE PONT MIRABEAU

Sous le Pont Mirabeau coule la Seine Et nos amours Faut-il qu’il m’en souvienne La joie venait toujours aprfes la peine Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure Les jours s’en vont je demeure

Les mains dans les mains restons face & face Tandis que sous Le pont de nos bras passe Des 6ternels regards l’onde si lasse

Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure Les jours s’en vont je demeure

L’amour s’en va comme cette eau courante L’amour s’en va Comme la vie est lente Et comme l’Esp6rance est violente

Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure Les jours s’en vont je demeure

Passent les jours et passent les semaines Ni temps pass6 Ni les amours reviennent Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure Les jours s’en vont je demeure (Fench.) G. Apollinaire.

L’INVITATION AU VOYAGE

Mon enfant, ma sceur, Songe a la douceur D’aller li-bas vivre ensemble! Aimer к loisir, Aimer et mourir Au pays qui te ressemble! Les soleils mouill6s De ces ciels brouill6s Pour mon esprit ont les charmes Si myst6rieux De tes traitres yeux, Brillant й travers leurs larmes.

L&, tout n’est qu’ordre et beautd, Luxe, calme et voluptd.

Des meubles luisants, Polis par les ans, D6coreraient notre chambre; Les plus rares fleurs M61ant leurs odeurs

E mi ador, as Walt Whitman : nonur los de prezent, mo an los de paseo e los d’aven, ke mi brasadar tos frate.

E nun mi bar al bel okos del nus femos e al ix de vu tos.

Va amik. A.A.

II. - POEZIO

LO PONT MIRABEAU

Su lo Pont Mirabeau fluar lo Seine E l’amor nosa En memi me nesar Lo joyo venir seme do lo pen Venu nox sonu l’or L’idos s’en gar mi rest or

Manos nel manos nos restu facface Dun su lo pont De na brasos pasar De lo miros eterna l’ondo lasa Venn nox sonu l’or L’idos s’en gar mi restor

Amor s’en gar as s’en gar et fluaqo Amor s’en gar Kan sar na vivo lenta E kan par si na Spero violenta Venu nox sonu l’or L’idos s’en gar mi restor.

L’idos pasar e pasar an lo vekos Nor pasat temp Nor amor revenar Su lo Pont Mirabeau fluar lo Seine Venu nox sonu l’or L’idos s’en gar mi restor.

G. Apollinaire.

L’INVIT A TRAVEL

Ma infanin, ma sor, Kan dulka ne sor, Igi yedus vivi kune! Lesvol nos amor, Amor e mortor, In yen land ki te semblar! Lo solyos banat D’et eel os brolat Ar po ma spirto lo carmos Sotela, mistera Del okos trazera Ki me brilar dre ta larmos.

Ye, to nur ordo e beleso, Luxo, kalmo e volupteso.

Moblos ki lucar, Ke l’anyos poldar, Dekorur lo kam о nosa ; Lo plu rara floros Mixanda sa odoros

Aux vagues senteurs de l’ambre, Les riches plafonds, Les miroirs profonds, La splendeur orientale, Tout у parlerait A l’&me en secret Sa douce langue natale.

L&, tout n’est qu’ordre et beaut6, Luxe, calme et volupt6.

Vois sur ces canaux Dormir ces vaisseaux Dont l’humeur est vagabonde; C’est pour assouvir Ton moindre d6?ir Qu’ils viennent du bout du monde. — Les soleils couchants Rev£tent les champs, Les canaux, la ville entire, D’hyacinthe et d’or; Le monde s’endort Dans une chaude lumtere.

L&, tout n’est qu’ordre et beaut6, Luxe, calme et volupt6. (French.) Charles Baudelaire.

ELEGY ON CAPTAIN MATTHEW HENDERSON

… Ye hills, near neebors o’ the starns, That proudly cock your cresting cairns! Ye cliffs, the haunts of sailing earns,

Where echo slumbers! Come join, ye Nature’s sturdiest bairns My wailing numbers!

Mourn, ilka grove the cushat kens! Ye haz’lly shaws and briery dens! Ye burnies, wimplin down your glens,

Wi’ toddlin din, Or foaming Strang, wi’ hasty stens, Frae lin to lin.

Mourn, little harebells o’er the lee ; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see; Ye woodbines hanging bonilie,

In scented bow’rs; Ye roses on your thorny tree, The first o’ flow’rs.

At dawn, when ev’ry grassy blade Droops with a diamond at his head, At ev’n, when beans their fragrance shed,

I’ tb’ rustling gale, Ye maukins whiddin thro’ the glade, Come join my wail.

Mourn, we see songsters o’ the wood; Ye grouse that crap the heather bud; Ye curlews calling thro’ a clud;

Ye whistling plover; And mourn, ye whirring paitrick brood; He’s gane for ever!

Del ambro al parfumo posa ; Lo plafonos rika, Lo spekos amika E I’enta Orvento splendoza, Yedus to parlor Al almo d’amor Nel nasalinguo dulkoza.

Ye to nur ordo e beleso, Luxo, kalmo e volupteso.

Tu miru lo mar : Ye navos dormar, Mo vagabonda za umor; Kirande lo mezos De sati ta dezos Dal end del mond zi venor. Tramontanda solyos Klarar feld e folyos, Kon bunta fok ne inondar; Ja kalmijar 1’ond, Dormijar lo mond Nel varma lum ki ne umar.

Ye to nur ordo e beleso, Luxo, kalmo e volupteso.

Charles Baudelaire.

ELEGIO ON KAPTEN MATTHEW HENDERSON

… Vu mont os, vezunos del stelos, Ki fyere ergar va kresta rok, Felsos, nidonos de pridezos,

Vo ekel restar! Venu, de Natur fort infanos, Ploru kon mi!

Dolyu, shak bosk pel ez konat! Nucelaros, spina kavernos, Flumolos serpanda nel valyos,

Kon rum troteta, О skuma kon asta saltonos, Da rok a rok.

Dolyu, vu klokelos ol prat; E vu, pavyelos tan belaspa ; Grasye pendanda kaprifolyos,

Jel dulka odor; Tu roz, on ta spina arbel, tu Roin del floros.

Aube, van d’erbo shak brinet Klinar, un diamant ol cef, Sere, van pizel dar fragranso

Al frema vent, Lepos, kursanda trul klaryol, Ploru kon mi.

Ploru, kantezos del forest; Galonko vorolanda bruyo; Kurlo, gridanda tru lo nubos ;

Siflanda pivyo; Dolyu, trup de mova perjolos; Po sem il girl

Mourn, sooty coots, and speckled teals, Ye fisher herons, watching eels; Ye duck and drake, wi’ airy wheels

Circling the lake; Ye bitterns, till the quagmire reels, Hair for his sake.

Mourn, clam’ring craiks at close o* day, ‘Mang fields o* flow’ring clover gay; And when ye wing your annual way

Frae our cauld shore, Tell thae far warlds, wha lies in clay, Whom we deplore.

Ye houlets, frae your ivy bow’r, In some auld tree, or eldritch tow’r, What time the moon, wi’ silent glowr,

Sets up her horn, Wail thro* the dreary midnight hour Till waukrife morn!

О rivers, forests, bills, and plains! Oft have ye heard my canty strains; But now, what else for me remains

But tales of woe; And frae my een the drapping rains Maun ever flow.

Mourn, spring, thou darling of the year! Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear; Thou, simmer, while each corny spear

Shoots up its head, Thy gay, green, flow’ry tresses shear, For him that’s dead!

Thou, autumn, wi’ thy yellow hair, In grief thy sallow mantle tear! Thou, winter, hurling thro’ the air

The roaring blast, Wide o’er naked world declare

The worth we’ve lost!…

… О Henderson! the man! the brother! And art thou gone, and gone for ever ? And hast thou crost that unknown river,

Life’s dreary bound ? Like thee, where shall I find another, The world around ?

Go to your sculptur’d tombs, ye Great, In a’ the tinsel trash of state! But by thy honest turf I’ll wait,

Thou man of worth! And weep thee ae best fellow’s fate E’er lay in earth…

Robert Burns.

can£0 de yell

Hi ha una fina flama que hom sent i no veu ; em deixa i em torna 1 em fuig i m’atreu. Quan tine son, fa veure que em vol defugir,

Dolyu, пег fulkos, fleksarcelos, Peskera eron gedanda anguilos, Kanardos ki fluge volvar

Sure lo lak; Ruju, butor, us lo palud Po il fremor.

Dolyu, tramonte klama ralbos, Intel bel florat treflofeldos; Van vu flugor pol anya exod,

Da na frig rivos, Dicu al ent mond ken nos plorar, Ki in ter lagar.

Tu, guf, da ta ritrado d’edro, On som old arb, som spektra tor, Van lo lun kon sa sila miro Spuntor sa kom, Gemu nel skura or de minox Us id nasar!

Flumos, forestos, planal, montos! Of vu m’udir kantanda gade; Mo ко me nun oso restar

Qam dolyovortos ? E dal okos ma nur amara Ploros fluor.

Ploru, Primaver, libat sizo! Kontenu shak primul un larmo; E tu, Zom, dun shak spig matura

Levar lo cef, Skiru ta gada flora tresos Po il ki mortir!

Erso jel blonda kaplos, skiru Pe dolyo tu ta blema mant! E tu, Yem, ki nel er urlar

Ta vild rafal, Proklamu tu nel mondo nuda Ken nos perdir!

… Oh Henderson, lo vir, lo frat Po sem tu vere departat ? Cu tu varkir lo skura flum, Frontyer de viv ? Ken por mi tri ki te semblor Nel enta mond ?

Vu, Granas, gi ver va rik tombos, Nel falsa lux de va brilonko! Nir ta umil erbel mi restor,

Tu vala vir! Plori ‘1 destin del vir bonesta Ki in ter lagir…

Robert Burns.

kantel d’oldun

Un flna flamet Sentat, no vidat, Me kitar, bakar, Fugar, me atirar. Parar vi me fugi Van mi dormenar,

i quan ja somio

resta prop de mi.

Fa a trenc d’alba : - Lleva’t

i oreja la liar;

l’univers que et volta

et somia encar -.

Doncs, per tal comanda,

oh mon cor soliu,

prengueu pactencia

que encara viviu.

(Catalan.)

Josep Garner.

le cceur £ternel

Si nous devons mourir, pourquoi mettre en nos veines Le philtre merveilleux du d6sir immortel ? Et pourquoi nous avoir munis d’un orgueil tel, Si nous sommes vainqueurs apr£s des luttes vaines ?

J’ai beau me dire : on meurt, je mourrai, nous mourrons! Et тёте en nous cachant, comme le bel Achille, Nous serions aussitAt d6couverts entre mille Pour recevoir le trait qui se cloue к nos fronts!

J’ai beau me dire : ils sont tous partis avant moi, Et тёте l’invincible et divin Alexandre, Tous ils ont eu mon &ge et tous ont vu descendre, Apr£s leurs clairs 6mois le t6n6breux 6moi!

Tous! Je crois cependant qu’un miracle se peut, Par lequel notre orgueil, qui jamais ne s‘6tonne, Verrait tous les hivers suivre tous les automnes, Lui qui devait, Ьё1ая, en contempler si peu.

Toujours la nuit et l’aube apr£s le cr6puscule! Ma fabuleuse foi se тё1е к la saison ; Et, pareil au marin соигЬё vers l’horizon, Ma nef joyeuse avance et l’horizon recule.

Nature, laisse-moi, parmi tes cheveux verts, fitre ton jeune amant jusqu’& la fin du monde; Et que mon cceur alors, par sa fronde,

Gravite autour de lui comme un rouge univers! (French.) Jean Cocteau.

francesca da rimini

Ed ella a me : “Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria; e ci6 sa il tuo dottore. Ma se a conoscer la prima radice

Del nostro amor tu hai cotanto affetto, Far6 come colui che piange e dice. Noi leggevamo un giorno per diletto Di Lancilotto, come amor lo strinse : Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto. Per piti f’iate gli occhi ci sospinse

Quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso : Ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse. Quando leggemmo il disiato riso Esser baciato da cotanto amante, Questi, che mai da me non fia diviso, La bocca mi bacio tutto tremante.

Galeotto fu il libro e chi lo scrisse! Quel giorno piti non vi leggemmo avante.” (Italian.) Dante.

(Divina Commedia, Inferno, Canto V.)

E des mi sonyar Nir mi revenar. Al aubo it me car : “Те levu, eru l’kam ; L’umanda universo Noksem te sonyar.” Donk, do tal komand, Oh ma kor solema, Tu prenu pasyenso : Noksem tu vivar.

Josep Carner.

lo kor eterna

Es nos dok morti shar, kur i tat in na venyos Lo filtro vana d’un lust de nomortaleso ? E kur i ne munat d’un orgolyo tan grana, Es nur d’un vana lop lo vinkeros nos sar ?

Dici mi vanagar : nos mortor, mi mortor! Mesme es nos ne skelar, as fir lo bel Akil, Asilke nos skoprat certe sur inte mil, E lo mortifa flesh kolpur plene na front!

Dici mi vanagar : tos departir pre mi Mesme lo novinkibla Alexandro lo dea, Tos yuna sir as mi, e dok zi tos vidir Dol joyo de yuneso a so veni sa mort!

Tos! tos, e mi dok krar un miraklo posibla, Un miraklo ke in mi fola orgolyo nutror, E mi, gre kondanat a ratangi ma prinkas, Me dicar ke po mi primaver eternor.

E dol krepusklo sem nox e matin venor! Ma fola fid vinkor e lo sizos e l’anyos; Sembla al yun mariner miranda l’orizon, Joya avansar ma nav, l’orizon rikular.

Oh Natur, tu me li inte ta verda kaplos, Me li us l’end del mond resti ta yun amant; Dan forse por ma kor, rijekat pe sa frond, Eterne volvi um so as un rub univers!

Jean Cocteau.

francesca da rimini

Ed el a mi : “No existar plu gran dol Qam memi pasat ix in sa mizeryo; Eto mele as kelun spar ta maestro. Mo, pes tu ne montrar un tan gran dezo De koni l’prim radik del amor nosa, Mi te it dicor, no sen parlande plori. Idyes nos sir lektanda po plazel Pri Lancelot, e kom il inamir : Sola nos sir, e sen kela suspek. Dok lo lekto ne fir plulyes miruci Et dete palijir lo vizos nosa ; Mo nur un punto sir ki ne vinkir, Van nos lektir del dulka bok dezat Ki sir bacat pe tan ardoza amant, Etun, ki nun da mi ni plu dusor, Enta tremanda me bacir lo bok. Galehot sir et libro e la skriber! Lekti plu dus yenide nos no pir.”

Dante.

vita nova

Sonetto XV.

Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare La donna mia, quand’ella altrui saluta, Ch’ogne lingua deven tremando muta, E li occhi non l’ardiscon di guardare.

Ella si va, sentendosi laudare, Benignamente d’umilt& vestuta; E par che sia una cosa venuta Da cielo in terra a miracol mostrare.

Mostrasi si piacente a chi la mira, Che dk per li occhi una dolcezza al core, Ch’ntender non la pu6 chi non la prova.

E par che da la sua labbia si mova Un spirito soave pien d’amore Che va dicendo aH’anima: “sospira!”. (Italian.) Dante.

the rock

(fragment)

The eagle soars in the summit of heaven,

The hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.

О perpetual revolution of configured stars,

О perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,

О world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!

The endless cycle of idea and action,

Endless invention, endless experiment,

Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;

Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;

Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,

All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,

But nearness to death no nearer to God.

Where is the Life we have lost in living ?

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge ?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information ?

The cycles of heaven in twenty centuries

Bring us farther from God and nearer to the dust.

T. S. Eliot.

mon amour

Mon amour pour avoir figur6 mes desirs

Mis tes lfevres au ciel de tes mots comme un astre

Tes baisers dans la nuit vivante

Et le sillage de tes bras autour de moi

Comme une flamme en signe de conqufite

Mes r6ves sont au monde

Clairs et spirituels.

Et quand tu n’est pas Ik

Je rive que je dors je r6ve que je r6ve.

viv nuva

Sonet XV

Tan gentila parar e tan onesta Ma bel Libin van El ve salutar, Ke tremande va glos devenar muta, E Le miri va okos plu no ozar.

Live El s’en gar, se sentande lodat, D’afableso vestat e d’umileso, E parar si as un kozo venat Da eel on ter po ne montri miraklo.

Tan plaza El aspar a ki Le mirar, K’El dar pel okos un dulkeso al kor, Ke kompreni no par ki no it provar.

E parar ke da la labyos exar As un soplo suava d’amor plena Ki susurar al almo : “tu sospiru 1”

Dante.

lo rok

(fragment)

L’aglo aladar ver lo cimo del cel. Yager e kanyos forfolgar sa veg. Oh del steleyos movo semeterna, Perpa ritorno de sizo do sizo, Mondo de primaver, d’ers, naso e mort! Senenda ciklo d’ideo, d’aktado, Senenda invent, senenda experiment, Ne dar kono de movo, no de kedo; Ne dar kono de parlo, no de silo, Ne dar kono de vortos, no del Vort. Na kono ne menar nur ver ignor, E ne nirar na ignor nur a na mort, Mo nel niro de mort e no nir Deo. Vo lo Viv ke vivande nos perdir ? Vo l’sago ke tru kono nos perdir ? Vo l’kono ke in informo nos perdir ? Den lo ciklos del eel in duis seklos Da Deo dus, nir polvo ne menar.

T. S. Eliot.

ma libin

Ma libin, inde mi figurat ma dezados,

Tat ta labyos nel eel de ta parlo as un astro,

E ta bacos nel viva nox,

E lo solkal in mi del liba brasos tua,

As sur un flam in segno de konkir,

Sar ma sonyos nel mond,

Zi klara e spirta.

E van tu no nir mi,

Mi sonyar k’mi dormar, mi sonyar k’mi sonyar. 129

Le front aux vitres comme font les veilleurs de chagrin

Ciel dont j’ai d6pass6 la nuit

Plaines toutes petites dans mes mains ouvertes

Dans leur double horizon inerte indifT6rent

Le front aux vitres comme font les veilleurs de chagrin

Je te cherche par del& l’attente

Par del& moi-m6me

Et je ne sais plus tant je t’aime

Lequel de nous deux est absent.

(French.) Paul Eluard.

lege das ohr…

Lege das Ohr an die Erde und hore… Und du wirst Hufgestampf horen, In weiter Feme nur, aber naher und n&her kommend. Es ist die Zukunft auf lichtweissen Pferden Eine goldene Krone im blauen Banner, Die Krone des Menschen und seines Sieges Und seines Konigtums. (German.) C. Flaischlen.

la ronde autour du monde

Si toutes les filles du monde voulaient s’ donner la main, tout autour de la mer elles pourraient faire une ronde.

Si tous les gars du monde voulaient bien £tr’ marins, ils f’raient avec leurs barques un joli pont sur l’onde.

Alors on pourrait faire une ronde autour du monde, si tous les gens du monde voulaient s’ donner la main.

(French.) Paul Fort.

gij badt op enen berg…

Gij badt op enen berg alleen, en… Jezus, ik en vind er geen waar ‘k hoog genoeg kan klimmen om U alleen te vinden : de wereld wil mij achterna, alwaar ik ga of sta of ooit mijn ogen sla; en arm als ik en is er geen, die nood hebbe en niet klagen kan; die honger’, en niet vragen kan; die pijne, en niet gewagen kan hoe zeer het doet! О leert mij, armen dwaas, hoe dat ik bidden moet! (Dutch.) Guido Gezelle.

wanderers nachtlied

Ueber alien Gipfeln Ist Huh,

In alien Wipfeln

Sptirest du

Kaum einen Hauch;

Die Vogelein schweigen im Walde.

Warte nur, balde

Ruhest du auch.

(German.) Goethe.

Front ol vitrei as far velyeros de shagren,

Gel dey mi depasir lo nox,

Planalos letisima in apra manos mia,

In za dipla orizon inerta, indiferenta,

E ma front ol vitrei as un velyer de pen,

Mi kirar, te kirar trans atendo,

Te kirar trans miself,

Mi plu no spar, tan mi t’amar,

Ki de nos du sar absenta.

Paul Eluard.

ponu l’orel…

Ponu l’orel ol ter e udu… E t’udor un rumel d’ufos, In dusa disto nur, mo pluplue niranda. Sar Aven on ipos lumalba, Un golda koron in blua flago. Koron d’omeyo e de la vinko E de la royeso.

G. Flaischlen. (Nea traduk d’Ottmar Loew.)

lo rond ul mond

Es tot felos del mond benvur duci lo man, zel fur totume l’mar, zel fur ul mar un rond.

Es tot boyos del mond benvur ji tos naveros, kon sa barkos zi pur ol ondos fi un nus pont.

Dan so pur fi un bel rond, un rond totume l’mond, es tot jensos del mond benvur duci lo man.

Paul Fort.

tosola on un mont tu pregir…

Tosola on un mont tu pregir E… Jesu, mi nil mont trovar, Vo mi sufalte grimpi pur

Ut pi te sola tri : Den mond me persekar, Kelye mi gar о star Kelye mi l’ok pozar. E nilun sar as pova as mi, Astan in detro sen pi plendi, Astan in ongo sen pi qesti, Ki tan sofrar e no par dici Kan dol il ar! Tu aprenu a mi, pova folun, Me aprenu kom mi pregi shar!

Guido Gezelle.

noxkant del wander

On tot cimos sar

Ripozo,

In tot et lokos

Tu sentar

Apene un soplo;

Nel bosko l’ezetos tacar.

Duldu, sun tu

An ripozor.

Goethe.

wernie sein brot..,

Wer nie sein Brot mit Tranen ass,

Wer nie die kummervollen Nachte

Auf seinem Bette weinend sass,

Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Machte!

Ihr fiihrt ins Leben uns hinein, Ir lasst den Armen schuldig werden, Dann iiberlasst ihr ihn der Pein : Denn alle Schuld racht sich auf Erden. (German.) Goethe.

mignon

Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen bliihn, Im dunkeln Laub die Goldorangen gluhn, Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht, Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht, Kennst du es wohl ?

Dahin!, Dahin Mocht ich mit dir, о mein Geliebter, ziehn.

Kennst du das Haus ? Auf Saulen ruht sein Dach, Es glanzt der Saal, es schimmert das Gemach, Und Marmorbilder stehn und sehn mich an : Was hat man dir, du armes Kind, getan ? Kennst du es wohl ?

Dahin!, Dahin Mocht ich mit dir, о mein Beschiitzer, ziehn.

Kennst du den Berg, und seinen Wolkensteg ? Das Maultier sucht im Nebel seinen Weg; In Hohlen wohnt der Drachen alte Brut; Es stiirzt der Fels und liber ihn die Flut; Kennst du ihn wohl ?

Dahin!, Dahin Geht unser Weg! о Yater, lass uns ziehn! (German.) Goethe.

in time of “the breaking of nations” (1915)

Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk

With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk.

Only thin smoke without flame

From the heaps of couch-grass;

Yet this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass.

Yonder a maid and her wight Gome whispering by;

War’s annals will cloud into night Ere their story die.

Thomas Hardy.

ki ni sa pan…

Ki ni sa pan kon plor edir, Ki nur kon larmos in sa bed Zorgoplen noxos no pasir, No ve konar, vu cela Posos.

Vu ne mergar tos in et viv, Lo povun kulpiji vu lar, Dan al pen vu l’abandonar : Den se vengar shak kulp on ter.

Goethe.

mignon

Konar tu l’land vo limonos florar ? Nel skura folyos l’oranjos brilar, Un dulka vent dal blua eel venar, Kalma lo mirt, alta lo lauro star, Konar it tu ?

Yedus! Yedus Mi gi kon tu, о ma libun, mi vur.

Konar tu l’dom ? On kolunos la dak, Lucar lo salyo e l’kamos lucelar. Za marmos me mirar e me dicar : Ke zi te fir, о ma pov infanin ? Konar it tu ?

Yedus! Yedus Mi gi kon tu, ma proteker, mi vur.

Konar tu l’mont e lo rut intel nubos ? Nel neblo 1’myul pene sa veg kirar; In antros ye lo jen del Drak vivar; Lo rok krolar, e lo flos it kolpar; Konar it tu ?

Yedus! Yedus Menar na veg, oh patro, nos ye giu!

van nasyonos krolar (1915)

Ye sola un vir ercar In sila sola vad Kon un old ip maldrita e klada Dime dormanda dun zi gar.

Nur liva fum sen flam Dal mukenos exar; Dok eto same forfolgor Mentre pasor lo Dinastios.

Ye un yunel kon sa libin

Murmande promenar; E guer-istor in nox pasor, Dun Amo-istor duror.

Thomas Hardy.

lyrisches intermezzo

Im wunderschonen Monat Mai, Als alle Knospen sprangen, Da ist in meinem Herzen Die Liebe aufgegangen.

Im wunderschonen Monat Mai Als alle Voglein sangen, Da hab’ich ihr gestanden Mein Sehnen und Verlangen. (German.) H. Heine.

lorelei

Ich weiss nicht, was soli es bedeuten, Dass ich so traurig bin; Ein Marchen aus alten Zeiten, Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.

Die Luft ist kiihl und es dunkelt, Und ruhig fliesst der Rhein; Der Gipfel des Berges funkelt Im Abendsonnenschein.

Die schonste Jungfrau sitzet Dort oben wunderbar, Ihr goldnes Geschmeide blitzet, Sie kammt ihr goldenes Haar.

Sie kammt es mit goldenem Kamme, Und singt ein Lied dabei; Das hat eine wundersame, Gewaltige Melodei.

Den SchifTer im kleinen SchifTe Ergreift es mit wildem Weh; Er schaut nicht die FelsenrifTe, Er schaut nur hinauf in die Hoh\

Ich glaube, die Wellen verschlingen Am Ende SchifTer und Kahn; Und das hat mit ihrem Singen

Die Lorelei getan. H. Heine.

(German.)

ballade des ausseren lebens

Und Kinder wachsen auf mit tiefen Augen, Die von nichts wissen, wachsen auf und sterben, Und alle Menschen gehen ihre Wege.

Und siisse Friichte werden aus den herben Und fallen nachts wie tote Vogel nieder Und liegen wenig Tage und verderben.

Und immer weht der Wind, und immer wieder Vernehmen wir und reden viele Worte Uns spuren Lust und Mudigkeit der Glieder.

Und Strassen laufen durch das Gras, und Orte Sind da und dort, voll Fackeln, Baumen, Teichen, Und drohende, und totenhaft verdorrte…

Wozu sind diese aufgebaut ? Und gleichen Einander nie ? und sind unzahlig viele ? Was wechselt Lachen, Weinen und Erbleichen ?

lirik-intermezo

Nel marvabela mes de Mey, Van tot bunos klatar, Dan ar ine ma kor Amor soden nasat.

Nel marvabela mes de Mey, Van tot ezos kantar, Mi ar a El ma dezos E aspiros avedat.

Heine.

lorelei

Mi no spar ke par mindi, Ke mi tan trista sar : Un istor d’olda tempos Dal memo no m’exar.

Far freska e skurensar, Lenta lo Ryen fluar, Al sera solyolum Lo cim del mont rubar.

Ibobe, marvabela, Sidar lo plu bel fel, E la golda kapleyo, La yuvelos splendar.

El kon un golda penyo, Se penyar, e kantar : Carmifa un melodio Dal marva kant exar.

Lo naviger nel barko Pe vilda dol kolpat, No vidar plu lo felsos Nur ibobe il mirar.

Mi kredar k’ende rondos Glutir barko e barker; Eto nur pe sa kanto

Lo bel Lorelei fir. Heine.

balad del para viv

E infanos kreskar kon okos profonda, Ki nilo spar, e kreskar e mortar, E sa veg dok tot omos forfolgar.

E dulka devenar lo frutos agra, Zi noxe ol suol as mort ezos kadar, Рок idos ye lagar, e sun putrar.

E sem vento soplar e sem anuve Mul vortos nos dicar e askoltar, E lust e laso alterne nos sentar.

E trul arbos kursar vegos, e ikibe Star dorfos plena de minax e mort, E d’arbos e de stagnos e de lumos…

Kaskope zi bildat, e ni simila L’un a Tosa e kur zi senende numa, E kur, dol ridos, ploros e diparso ?

Was frommt das alles uns und diese Spiele, Da wir doch gross und ewig einsam sind Und wandernd nimmer suchen irgend Ziele ?

Was frommts, dergleichen viel gesehen haben ? Und dennoch sagt der viel, der “Abend” sagt, Ein Wort, daraus Tiefsinn und Trauer rinnt

Wie schwerer Honig aus den hohlen Waben. (German.) Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

carpe diem!

Odes, I/XI

Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quern

mihi, quern tibi Finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec

Babylonios Tentaris numeros. Ut melius quidquid

erit pati! Seu plures hiemes, seu tribuit Jupiter

ultimam, Quae nunc oppositis debilitat

pumicibus mare Tyrrhenum, sapias, vina liques et

spatio brevi Spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur,

fugerit invida Aetas : carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

(Latin.) Horatius.

mes vers fuiraient…

(Musique de Reynaldo Hahn.)

Mes vers fuiraient, doux et frdles, Vers votre jardin si beau, Si mes vers avaient des ailes, (Des ailes) comme l’oiseau.

Ils voleraient, 6tincelles, Vers votre foyer qui rit, Si mes vers avaient des ailes, (Des ailes) comme l’esprit.

Pr£s de vous, purs et fiddles, Ils accourraient nuit et jour, Si mes vers avaient des ailes, (Des ailes) comme l’amour. (French.) Victor Hugo.

la f§te chez th£r£se

La nuit vint; tout se tut; les flambeaux s‘6teignirent; Dans les bois assombris les sources se plaignirent; Le rossignol, cach6 dans son nid t£n6breux, Chanta comme un po£te et comme un amoureux. Chacun se dispersa sous les profonds feuillages; Les folles en riant entralnerent les sages ; L’amante s’en alia dans l’ombre avec l’amant; Et, troubtes comme on l’est en songe, vaguement, Ils sentaient par degr6s se тё1ег к leur toe, A leurs discours secrets, & leurs regards de flamme, A leur cceur, & leurs sens, к leur molle raison, Le clair de lune bleu qui baignait l’horizon. (French.) Victor Hugo.

Ke ne vikar toeto, e tot et ludos, Pes tamen seme sola nos restar, Pes wandande nil skopo nos kirar ?

E ke vikar, tan kozos i vidat ? Den uske tro dicar, ki “ser” dicar, Parol, unde tan senso e dolyo exar

As densa exar da kava rados myel.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

kolgu l’id!

Tu no kiru, Leukon, spi sur malpia, L’endo ke te о me Jov destinir. Nor tu konsultu numos astrologa. Kan mela axepti kelo ki venor! Es deos te plul yemos rizervir, Au es etun lo lasta, ki frangar Del Mar Tirenya l’ponsa rok del kust, Sagu, filtru ta vin, den tempo breva. Al vana spero d’un plu longa viv Rinuncu donk. Dun nos parlar, jelosa L’oro s’en gar. Kolgu l’id ki pasar. E dete tu de kras expektu nilo.

Orasyo.

ma virsos flur…

(Muzik pe Reynaldo Hahn.)

Dulka e frela flur ma virsos Ver va tan bela garden, Es ma virsos alos ur, (Alos ur) as en ar l’ezo.

As liva funkos zi flur Ver va ridela foken, Es ma virsos alos ur, (Alos ur) as en ar spirto.

Рига, fidela, ver vu Id e nox zi akursur, Es ma virsos alos ur, (Alos ur) as ar amor.

Victor Hugo.

lo fest she terez

Nox venir, to tacir, spenijir lo flamilos, E nel boskos skurat lo sorgos murmurir; E l’usnolo, skelat in sa tenebra nid, Kantir as un poet, as un inamorat. Se disperdir shakun su profonda ramevos; Ridande lo folin intranir dan lo saga; Ver l’ombro l’amantin kol amanto s’en gir; E, turbat as so sar in sonyo, kon vageso, Zi gradele sentir, al sekra konfidensos, Al almos inkantat, a sa miros de flam, A sa sensos, al kor, a sa mola rajon, Se mixi lo lunklar onanda l’orizon.

Victor Hugo.

extase

J‘6tais seul pr£s des flots par une nuit d‘4toiles. Pas un nuage aux cieux, sur les mers pas de voiles. Mes yeux plongeaient plus loin que le monde гёе1. Et les bois, et les monts, et toute la nature, Semblaient interroger dans un confus murmure Les flots des mers, les feux du ciel.

Et les 6toiles d’or, 16gions inflnies, A voix haute, & voix basse, avec mille harmonies, Disaient, en inclinant leurs couronnes de feu; Et les flots bleus, que rien ne gouverne et n’arrfite, Disaient, en recourbant 1’ёсите de leur crdte : — C’est le Seigneur, le Seigneur Dieu! (French. Victor Hugo.

la belle dame sans merci

Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight, Alone and palely loitering ? The sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing.

Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight, So haggard and so woebegone ? The squirrel’s granary is full, And the harvest’s done.

I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withered too.

“I met a lady in the meads Full beautiful, a fairy’s child; Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild.

“I set her on my pacing steed, And nothing else saw all day long; For sideways would she lean, and sing A fairy’s song.

“I made a garland for her head, And bracelets too, and fragrant zone; She look’d at me as she did love, And made sweet moan.

“She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew; And sure in language strange she said, I love thee true.

“She took me to her elfin grot, And there she gaz’d and sighed deep, And there I shut her wild sad eyes — So kiss’d to sleep.

“And there we slumber’d on the moss, And there I dream’d, and woe betide, The latest dream I ever dream’d On the cold hill side.

“I saw pale kings, and princes too, 138

extaso

Sola mi sir nir mar je un nox plena de stelos, Nil nubo sir in eel, ol maro sir nil vel. L’okos ma gir plu dus qam lo mondo reala, E lo boskos, lo mont, to nel enta natur Interogi semblir in un konfuza murmo L’aqos del mar, lo fok del cel.

E lo stelos de gold, in senenda lejonos, Laude 1’un, laze l’osa, in sennuma armonios, Klinande sa koron de fok me parir dici : L’aqos blua ke nix governar о fermar, Dun klinande lo skum de sa kresto dicir : ,,Sar lo Sinyor, lo Sinyor Deo!”

Victor Hugo.

lo bel dam sen gnado

Ah, ко par te peni, pov seo, Ki sola e palema wandar ? Ume lo lak lo yenk sekar, Nil ez kantar.

Ah, ко par te peni, pov seo, Ki sola e palema wandar ? Del skoyo lo grenar’ nun plena; E l’myet endat.

On ta front mi vidar un lilyo, Angosh-banat e febr-umida; On ta vang un rozo fanar, An it mortanda.

“Nel pratos mi inkontrir un Dam, Marvabela, un fllin de feo; La kaplos longa, la ped liva, E l’okos vilda.

“Mi le sidir ol ip nir mi, Niloso mi vidir entide; Den el klinir ver mi e kantir Un fea kanto.

“Mi fir un kranso po la cef, Mi flor-umir bras e talyel; El me mirir as es m’amir, Dulke el murmir.

“El trir po mi dulka radikos, E vilda myel, e mayno liva, Certe in som stran linguo el dicir : „T’amar mi vere”.

“El me dukir a sa grot fea, Ye el me mirir e sospirir, Ye mi klozir la vild trist okos, E us dorm’ kusir.

“E nos ye dormelir on muslo, Ye mi sonyir, ah! ma malox, Ma lasta sonyo mi sonyir, Ol frig bergel.

“Mi vidir pala royos, prinsos, 139

Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; Who cry’d : “La belle Dame sans merci Hath thee in thrall 1”

“I saw their starv’d lips in the gloom With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke, and found me here On the cold hill side.

“And this is why I sojourn here Alone and palely loitering. Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing.”

John Keats.

la cigale et la fourmi

La Cigale ayant chant6

Tout ГШ, Se trouva fort ddpourvue Quand la bise fut venue : Pas un seul petit morceau De mouche ou de vermisseau. Elle alia crier famine Chez la Fourmi sa voisine, La priant de lui pr£ter Quelque grain pour subsister Jusqu’& la saison nouvelle. “Je vous paierai, lui dit-elle, Avant l’aodt, foi d’animal, Int6ret et principal”. La Fourmi n’est pas pr£teuse : ‘ C’est 1& son moindre d6faut. “Que faisiez-vous au temps chaud ?” Dit-elle к cette emprunteuse. “Nuit et jour к tout venant Je chantais, ne vous ddplaise.” ,,Vous chantiez ? J’en suis fort aise : Eh bienl dansez maintenant.” (French.) La Fontaine.

cantares

Vino, sentimiento, guitarra у poesia hacen los cantares de la patria mia… Cantares…

Quien dice cantares, dice Andalucia.

A la sombra fresca de la vieja parra un mozo moreno rasguea la guitarra… Cantares…

Algo que acaricia у algo que desgarra.

La prima que canta у el bordon que llora… Y el tiempo callado se va hora tras hora. Cantares…

Son dejos fatales de la rasa mora.

No importa la vida, que ya est& perdida, у despuds de todo, qu6 es eso, la vida ? Cantares…

Cantando la pena, la pena se olvida.

Madre, pena, suerte, pena, madre, muerte, 140

Pala guereros, tos mort-pala, Ki klamir : “Lo bel Dam sen gnado Ja te mastrir!”

“Za fletra labros mi vidir, Ki, sinistre apra, m’avertir; Mi velyijir e me trir ik, Ol frig bergel.

“E dete mi sojornar ik, Sola e palema mi wandar. Gre ume lo lak lo yenk’ sekar, Nil ez kantar.”

John Keats.

lo cikal e lo mirmin

Lo cikal ande kantat

L’enta zom, Senavanda se trovir Van malvedo revenir : No lo letesta peset De mosko nor de vermet. Dan gir il klami sa ong A sa vezin lo Mirmin, E de presti le pregir Som gren ut il se nutru Us lo nara primaver. “Pre agost, ol onor mia, Mi ve pagor, il le cir, Interes e kapital”. Lo Mirmin no libar presti : Eto la nura defekt. “Ke fir vu pel vedo varma ?” El askir lo bel loner. “Idenoxe pe ma kantos Lo pasandas mi carmir”. “Vu kantir ? Ka marva kozo! Ben, Amik, nun dansu vu!

La Fontaine.

kansonos

Vin, sentiment, gitar e poezio, Vu lo kansonos far de ma patrio… Kansonos…

Ki car Kansonos, car Andalusio.

Nel ombro freska del olda pergol, Un brun yunel raskar lo gitar… Kansonos…

Somo skirar e somo karesar.

L’akutel kantar, lo klokon plorar… E sila lo temp orore s’en gar. Kansonos…

Fatal latado de lo raso mora.

Mo no vikar viv, ki ja sar perdat, E ke sar na viv, ke sar, tokontat ? Kansonos…

Kantande lo pen, so lo pen oblar.

Matro, peno, suert, peno, matro, mort, 141

ojos negros, negros, у negra la suerte.., Cantares…

En ellos el alma del alma se vierte.

Cantares. Cantares de la patria mia : Cantares son solo los de Andalucia. Cantares…

No tiene mks notas la guitarra mia. (Spanish.) Manuel Machado.

quanta bella giovinezza!

… Ciascun apra ben gli orecchi : Di doman nessun si paschi; Oggi siam giovani e vecchi Lieti ognun, femmine e maschi; Ogni tristo pensier caschi; Facciam festa tuttavia. Chi vuol esser lieto sia : Di doman non с’ё certezza.

Donne e giovanetti amanti, Viva Bacco e viva Amore! Ciascun suoni, balli e canti! Arda di dolcezza il core! Non fatica, non dolore! Quel ch’ha esser, convien sia; Chi vuol esser lieto, sia : Di doman non с’ё certezza.

Quant’ ё bella giovinezza Che si fugge tuttavia! (Italian.) Lorenzo de’ Medici.

la chanson de fortunio

Si vous croyez que je vais dire

Qui j’ose aimer, Je ne saurais, pour un empire,

Vous la nommer. Nous allons chanter к la ronde,

Si vous voulez, Que je l’adore et qu’elle est blonde

Comme les bids. Je fais ce que sa fantaisie

Veut m’ordonner, Et je puis, s’il lui faut ma vie,

La lui donner. Du mal qu’une amour ignorde

Nous fait souffrir, J’en porte l’&me <1ёсЫгёе,

Jusqu’& mourir. Mais j’aime trop pour que je die

Qui j’ose aimer, Et je veux mourir pour ma mie, Sans la nommer.

(French.) Alfred de Musset.

day’s affirmation

Emerging at midnight To cool my aching eyes with the sight of stars

I hear the nightingale Throbbing in the thicket by my garden gate

Okos пега, пега, е пега lo suert… Kansonos…

Lo fondo del almo in zi se versar.

Kansonos, kansonos de ma patrio, Kansonos sar nur los d’Andalusio. Kansonos…

Plu notos no ar ma pova gitar.

Manuel Machado.

AH, KAN YUNESO BELAi

Shakun apru ben Torelos, De kras se nutru nilun; Oje nos, yunas, oldunos, Boyos, felos, gada tos; Pelu nos kel trista penso, Kontinue festu nos! Gada siu ki var si : Nos pri kras ar nil certeso.

Felos, yunelos amanda, Vivu Bakus, vivu Amor! Shakun sonu, balu, kantu! Ardu pe yuneso l’kor! Pelu nos fatik e dol! Lo ki shar veni, venor, Gada siu ki var si. Nos pri kras ar nil certeso.

Ah, kan bela na yuneso, Yuneso ki s’enfugar!

Lorenzo de* Medici.

LO KANSON DE FORTUNYO

Es vu kredar mi ve dicor

Ken mi ami ozar! Mi no vur certe, po un imper

Ley nami a vu. In rondo nos gor kanti kune,

Es vu dezar, Ke mi l’adorar, k’as lo frumos

El blonda sar. Mi far lo ke la fantazio,

Me ordoni var, E certe, es luy nesar ma vivo

It di mi par. Pel mal k’un amor ignorat

Sofri ne far, Mi sentar Talmo ma skirat

E ja en mortar. Mo tro mi amar po pi ve dici

Ken mi ami ozar, E po ma libin mi var morti Sen nami ley.

Alfred de Musset.

TRIONFO D’lD

Emergande minoxe Po freski pel vid del stelos Tokos alga,

Mi udar Tusnol Pulsanda nel folto al ush de ma garden.

And I think : A poet in the old days would have made a song

Of your song and the starlit night The scent of wallflowers clinging to the ground.

But now it is different : You sing but we are silent Our hearts too sadly patient

All these years.

Sing on I The night is cool.

Morning and the world will be lit With whitebeam candles shining and o* the frail And tender daring splendour of wild cherrytrees.

Herbert Read.

pour нё1_ёые

Sonnet XLIII

Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, к la chandelle, Assise aupr^s du feu, devidant et filant, Direz chantant mes vers, en vous esmerveillant: Ronsard me celebroit du temps que j’estois belle!

Lors, vous n’aurez servante oyant telle nouvelle, Desja sous le labeur к demy sommeillant. Qui au bruit de mon nom ne s’aille resveillant, Benissant votre nom de louange immortelle.

Je seray sous la terre et fant6me sans os Par les ombres myrteux je prendray mon repos; Vous serez au fouyer une vieille accroupie,

Regrettant mon amour et vostre fier desdain. Vivez, si m’en croyez, n’attendez к demain : Cueillez des aujourdhuy les roses de la vie. (French.) Ronsard.

“le cantique des cantiques”

(“The Song of Songs’*) de Salomon.

Des baisers de sa bouche qu’il m’embrasse! Car ton amour vaut plus que le vin.

Tes parfums ont une odeur suave,

Ton nom lui-тёте est pour moi un parfum ; C’est pourquoi les jeunes filles t’aiment tant.

Entratne-moi avec toi, et nous courrons! Dans ses chambres le Roi m’a conduit е…

Par toi nous nous ^jouirons et nous nous ёgaieгons, Nous voulons exalter ton amour plus que le vin. Ce n’est pas sans raison que tu es tant аппё.

Je suis noire, mais belle cependant, filles

De Jёгusalem, comme des chamarrures et des tentes

De Roi. Ne n^prisez done pas mon teint : Seul le brfllant soleil m’a rendue noire.

Les fils de та тёге se sont irrH^s contre moi Et ils ont fait de moi la gardienne des vignes. Mais ma vigne к moi, h£las! je ne l’ai pas gardtfe! —

Dis-moi, toi seul que mon coeur aime, L’endroit ой tu fais pattre tes agneaux Et ой к midi tu les laisses se reposer;

Car pourquoi serais-je comme une pauvre ёgaгёe Parmi les troupeaux de tant d’autres bergers ? ■—

Si tu ne le sais pas, 6 la plus belle entre les femmes, Sors et cherche les traces des agneaux

Mi pensar : Un poet d’olda temp ur fat un kant

Kon ta kant e kol stela nox E kol parfum del floros sparsat suole.

Nun eto defa; Vu kantar e nos sila, Na koros triste dulda Ja dep anyos.

Mo kantu! Lo nox freska. Matine sun mond reklaror, Pe alba kandelos e pel fina Audaxa sarta bril del vild kirsyeros.

Herbert Read.

po elen

Van vu sor un oldin, sere al lum del kandel, Nir lo foko sidat, filande e filenande, Vu ma virsos kantor, ve marvande dicor : Ronsard me celebrir nel temp van mi sir bela!

Dan, no un sol ancelin vu or, ki, eto udande, Do sa longa labor ja dime dormelande, Ravelyande soden al sono de ma nam, Kon nomortala lod va namo no benzor.

Mi sor ja su lo ter e, fantasmo sen ostos Mi ripozo prenor sub l’ombro de lo mirtos ; In va foken vu sor un oldin gropalat,

Rigrande l’amor ma e va fyera kontemno. Vu vivu, es me kredar, atendu nek us kras : Des oje kolgu vu lo rozos de lo viv.

Pierre Ronsard.

“kanto del kantos”

de Salomon.

Kol bacos de sa bok il bacu me! Den l’amor tua plu valar qam vin. Ar ta parfumos un suav odor, E po mi ta nam self a sar parfum. Sar dete ke lo felos tan t’amar. Kon tu me tranu tu e nos kursor! In sa kamos lo Roy ar me dukat… Pe tu nos rigodor e nos gayor, Plu qam vin exaltor nos l’amor tua. No sar sen grun ke tu sar tan amat. Nera mi sar, mo dok mi bela, felos De Jerusalmo, as ornonos e tendos De Roy. Zo vu no spicu ma tintel : Den nur lo brula solyo me fir nera. Lo fllyos de ma matro argir ver mi E fir de mi lo garderin del vinyos, Mo l’vinyo mia, vey! mi no gardir! — Dicu, tu sola ke ma kor amar, Lo lok vo tu far paci l’agnos tua E vo tu mide ze ripozi lar; Den kur sur mi as un pov egarin Intel gregos de tan osa pastoros ? — Es tu no it spar, oh belesta intel femos, Exu, kiru lo tracos tu del agnos