Monday, January 21, 2013

His Excellency Ignacy Krasicki

As you may have noticed I am quite critical against the Catholic Church concerning our history. However there are few exceptions. There is for example a Catholic bishop I just adore - Ignacy Krasicki. He was a polish poet. One of his works is Monachomachia ("the war of monks"), it is quite funny. Here is my translation of one of his short poems:

A lamb and wolves

Who wishes to find an excuse, he could,
Two wolves have captured a lamb in a wood,
Were about to eat him, he asks: "What's your right?"
"You're tasty, weak, in a wood" - said the wolf before bite.


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