Edward Mieželaitis
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Near a rotted old stump
Which the spring water washes
A n old helmet rusts, gaunt,
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My two feet are set on the globe of the Earth.
My two hands extend to the orb of the Sun.
So between the globe of the Earth
...
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Squeezed, like the words in sonnets, in its frame of banks,
obeying canons, flows the river's epic water,
like the events in ageless poems, like the mast
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What's the sky?
What are stars? Aren't they simply blue eyes?
What's the moon? Not an eyebrow bent like a bow?
Not your features which in my poem arise
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Edward Mieželaitis Biography
1923 m. with his parents moved to Kaunas. 1931 - 1935 m. He studied at the Kaunas IV progymnasium later Kaunas III gymnasium. 1935. entered the underground Komsomol organization. 1939 - 1940 m. Vytautas Magnus University and the 1940- 1941 year. Vilnius University to study law. 1940. LYCL elected CC member. In 1940-1941. the newspaper " Komsomol truth " editor. During the Soviet-German war fled to Russia , he worked in Nikolski ( Penza region ) glass factory. 1941- 1944 m. 16 th Lithuanian Riflemen Division of the war correspondent. 1943 - 1946 m. LYCLL secretary. 1946. magazine youth ranks of "editor, and later worked in the magazine " Star " version, with the State's political and literary publishing house . From 1951 m. He worked exclusively literary work. 1954 - 1959 m. SSR Writers' Union Secretary of the Board, 1959- 1970 year. the President. 1960 - 1989 m. LCP member. 1955 - 1963 m. and 1975 -1 989 years. LSSR Deputy, 1975-1989 m. LSSR Presidium of the Vice-President. 1962 -1970 m. Supreme Soviet deputies. He is buried in the Antakalnis cemetery)
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The Helmet And The Dandelion
Near a rotted old stump
Which the spring water washes
A n old helmet rusts, gaunt,
And upon it, audacious,
Like a bold mountaineer
Climbs a wormlet. Nearby
A small bird for a nest
Scans the beach with its eye.
The last ice-splinters melt
And are turned into springs.
But what flower in the grass
To the old helmet clings?
From beneath its steel rim
Peers a frail dandelion.
Stroke its head with your hand -
It's alive - undying...
Translated by Dorian Rottenberg
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