Mikor meghalok

Mikor meghalok, ne hagyd, hogy a k�nnyek

�sszemocskolj�k szomor� s�romat,

Hogy meg�sz�lj v�gleg a sorsom miatt,

S hogy s�rboltom a f�lelem t�ltse meg:

S�rk�vemen megjelenik a sz�ved,

B�r �lek m�g – ne adj es�lyt b�natnak,

Hagyd, hogy az �r�m f�nyei gy�ljanak

A v�gs� Gy�zelmen, mi sz�r �s �get.

M�r hallom, hogy lopakodik a b�nat,

�s darabokra t�rdeli a csendet;

Hogy f�lelmem el�zd: rem�ny nem marad,

S j�l tudom: hamar a f�ldbe temetnek,

Testet gy�szol az, ki meg�l egy lelket,

S ki �l�ket gyilkol, holtakat sirat.

2008-03-10

When I am Dead

When I am dead let not your murderous tears
Deface with their slow dropping my sad tomb
Lest your grey head grow greyer for my doom
And fill its echoing corridors with fears:
Your heart that my stone monument appears
While yet I live—O give it not to gloom
When I am dead, but let some joy illume
The ultimate Victory that stings and sears.

Already I can hear the stealthy tread
Of sorrow breaking through the hush of day;
I have no hope you will avert my dread,
Too well I know, that soon am mixed with clay,
They mourn the body who the spirit slay
And those that stab the living weep the dead.