Fraternity-Testvériség, 1941 (19. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1941-04-01 / 4. szám
TESTVÉRISÉG 17 WELCOME BRAVE KOSSUTH Loved of thy country! Friend of the brave Tho’ from the hearth of thy sires thou’lt roam, Gladly we welcome thee o’er the wave; Proudly would Britain find thee a home. Low in the dust tho’ thy nation be laid, — Vain tho’ the might of thy high chivalry... Round thee is glory that never can fade; Welcome, brave Kossuth, welcome to thee! Tyrants may triumph over the free, Hosts of thy brethren fill fetter and grave; Ne’er will the Fatherland cherished by thee Find midst its children a coward or slave. Soon shall be shattered the yoke of the foe; High midst the nations thy country will be; Thine is the heart and the hand for the blow; Welcome, brave Kossuth, welcome to thee! * KOSSUTH Two Sonnets I. Right noble Kossuth! On our England’s shore Thy hero-spirit finds a rest; and we Are glad and proud, indeed, to waft to thee True welcomes warm, from heart-springs gushing o’er. A blessing on thee, now and evermore! Sublime thou wert while crowned with victory; And also hast thou shown that there can be A grandeur in defeat. Amid the roar Of tyrants, hostile peoples, tempest-driven, Thou stoods’t most liero-like throughout the woe. And all is done; and Freedom’s flag is riven. Yet well we know that thou hast rightly striven; And not in vain, believe. Keep true, and so Have faith in God, and thou shalt see his heaven! II. I hail thee, Kossuth, poet true! For we Who feel that in us minstrel ardour burns, Who, childlike lisping, sing and sob by turns; I say, that we must ever look to thee, Anri all high souls, wherever such may be, As noblest types of lofty verse. The poet learns The deepest truth, I think, when he discerns Unwritten song as highest poetry. Thou hast expressed the spirit’s music more, Oh! Kossuth, than our epics! For thy life Is a great poem, truly; very rife With all of grand, sublime! The surge-beat shore Shall yet be stilled. Enfranchised from the strife, Thy soul shall flash the brighter evermore! Marie J. Ewen From: Public Good, Vol. II. London, 1851.
