You’re lying, buried up to your neck

You’re lying, buried up to your neck:

Neither earth nor underworld.

 

Swift arrows strike you down,

Gods with silver bow.

 

Thunder sings in the depths,

Zithers, rough trumpet.

 

(You walk beneath the earth,

Through Ljig’s stone corridors.)

 

A brief slumber takes you by the hand.

 

Translated by Živojin B. Popović

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