De Litouwse schrijver en vertaler Jurgis Baltrušaitis werd geboren op 2 mei 1873 in Paantvardys. Zie ook mijn blog van 2 mei 2007 en ook mijn blog van 2 mei 2008 en ook mijn blog van 2 mei 2009en ook mijn blog van 2 mei 2010
TESTAMENT OF GRIEF
When pain assails your heart to tear it,
Your naked heart, its helpless prey,
Receive the gift of grief and bear it,
Soul of my dark departing day.
When times of torment strike unbidden,
With weeping eyes, through pain and stress,
You peer at mistery, dimly hidden:
God’s ways are ways of deep distress…
We take the tasks that life enforces,
Grope to light its drabness bars
And raise the load of mundane courses
Up to the festival of stars.
And he, and only he, can sever
His ties with dust in throes of birth
Who loves the crown of thorns, forever
Renouncing all he owned on earth.
Vertaald door Ants Oras
MORNING SONGS
I
The dawn has caught fire ere the coming of day!
Night calls back her shadows to the ravines,
And in a pearly throng, in girdles of fire,
The caravans of the clouds depart…
Space is laid bare amid dewy valleys,
Distances have been moved aside into infinity, –
As though from God’s heights, from deeps forbidden,
All the veils have fallen over all the world…
The bay has been aroused, the wave is growing,
It has thundered in wild fury,
And the stillness has been shattered like a resonant vessel,
In the great triumph of morning…
Vertaald door W. Edward Brown

Jurgis Baltrušaitis (2 mei 1873 – 3 januari 1944)
Portret door Leonid Osipovich Pasternak
Lees verder “Jurgis Baltrusaitis, Gisela Elsner, Franz Innerhofer, Jamal Abro”








