Tuesday, 14 June 2016

A quatrain from Samuel Columbus (1642-1679)

Graf-Skrifft öfwer LARS Jahanson
som sig nämde Lucidor den Olycklige

Den sig i all sin tijd/ olycklig sielfwer spådde/
Han ock uppå sin tijd/ olycklig ända nådde:
Så såg han Werlden sin. Gak nu ehur du heeter/
Och säg at ey är sant/ Poëter ä’ Propheter.


Epitaph for LARS Jahanson
who called himself Lucidor the Unfortunate

Who forecast for his life/ ill-fortune would pursue him/
Felt sure too in this life/ ill-fortune did accrue him:
Thus did he view his world. So don’t whate’er your name is/
Say prophecy cannot/ be what a poet’s game is.


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