Fletnik z Hamelnu. The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Robert Browning

IV.

An hour they sat in council;

 At length the Mayor broke silence

˝For a guilder I'd my ermine gown sell;

 I wish I were a mile hence!

It's easy to bid one rack one's brain-

I'm sure my poor head aches again,

I've scratched it so, and all in vain.

Oh for a trap, a trap, a trap!˝

Just as he said this, what should hap

At the chamber door but a gentle tap?

˝Bless us,˝ cried the Mayor, ˝what's that?˝

(With the Corporation as he sat

Looking little though wondrous fat;

Nor brighter was his eye, nor moister

Than a too-long-opened oyster,

Save when at noon his paunch grew mutinous

For a plate of turtle green and glutinous)

˝Only a scraping of shoes on the mat?

Anything like the sound of a rat

Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!˝

Projekt okładki: Juliusz Susak

Na okładce: Allan Osterlind (1855-1938), The Pied Piper (1897), licencja: public domain,

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Tekst angielski wg edycji z roku 1842.

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