Pravzor je poškozen, Benedikt shromažďuje v Amberu vojsko a ze Dvorů
chaosu přijíždí nečekaný spojenec, jemuž Oberon věří. Což je v
rodině, kde si všichni jdou po krku, důvod k zamyšlení.
Dá se
věřit Oberonovi?
Čtenářům doslovu "Krátce o překladu" jsem nakonec zůstal dlužit jednu báseň. Omlouvám se, jak jsem rušil některé plánované dodatky (či spíše: posunul je do dalšího dílu) vypadla mi i ta. Nějak poslední dobou zapomínám.
Uvádím ji tedy alespoň zde:
Original version of La Belle Dame Sans Merci, 1819
- John Keats -
Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
So haggard and so woe-begone?
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 cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.
I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful - a faery's child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She looked at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.
I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery's song.
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 wept and sighed full sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.
And there she lulled me asleep
And there I dreamed - Ah! woe betide! -
The latest dream I ever dreamt
On the cold hill side.
I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried - 'La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!'
I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill's side.
And this is why I sojourn here
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
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