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A Group of Slovak Folk Poems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2018
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- The sparrow's song within the thor
- Our Lord doth welcome, newly born.
- The titmouse twitters tsin-tsin-tsin,
- For mankind redeemed from sin.
- Triumphant is the magpie's cry
- That the fiend of hell must die.
- The lonely owl's oo-oo-oo
- Sings the Saviour's praises too.
- For our simple rhyme and verse,
- A penny each, Sir, from your purse.
- May God your kindness, Sir, repay,
- His Grace hell-fires keep away.
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- Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1946
References
1 Výbor Slovenskej Poezie L'udovej, 2 vols., Turčiansky Martin, Sv., Slovakia, 1928, II, 4 Google Scholar.
2 Ibid., II, 20.
3 Ibid., II, 63.
4 Ibid., II, 62.
5 Ibid., p. l35.
6 Ibid., p. 87.
7 Ibid., p.17.
8 Ibid., p. 66.
9 The last two lines of each stanza are to be repeated.
9a Ibid., Vol. I, p. 21.
10 Ibid., p. 19.
11 The last three lines of each stanza are to be repeated.
12 Ibid., II, 60.
13 Ibid., p. 9.
14 The last two lines of each stanza are to be repeated.
15 Ibid., p. 11.
16 Ibid., p. 32.
17 The last two lines of each stanza are to be repeated.
18 Ibid., p. 30.
19 Ibid., p. 16.
20 Ibid., p. 53.
21 Ibid., p. 17.
22 The last two lines of each stanza are to be repeated.
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