גלייביק
Faithful
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Page 386. 'Gleybik' (Faithful/Believing): neither 'shpas fun lets' (mockery of a jester) nor 'krumkaytn fun falshn nar' (crookedness of false fool) will part them. They walk 'farbriderte in laydn' (brothered in suffering) through 'khavrshaft' (friendship — Hebrew 'khaver'). Not first or last to be 'derniderikt... farshemt' (humiliated, shamed). 'Der hetser' (the inciter) runs behind 'gehetsen' (the hunted) 'mit shteyner fule hent' (with hands full of stones). He doesn't deny his 'khaver' (friend — Hebrew): 'elnt vakst tsuzamen mit mayn freyd' (misery grows with joy). An 'alter zhaber' (old toad) settles on the heart from disintegrating talk. Is this 'goyrl... fun eybik' (fate from eternity — Hebrew 'goyrl')? No — 'besers mir bashert' (better destined for me): 'tsu lebn kindish, tsu lebn gleybik' (to live childishly, faithfully). Don't stop, don't look back — 'shteynervarefers hant' (stone-thrower's hand) will tire. Behind: 'shtarbndiker vinter' (dying winter); ahead: 'oyfgeyendik land' (rising land). Affirmation of hope despite persecution.
גלייביק
ניט דער שפּאַס פֿון לץ וועט אונדז צעשיידן,
און ניט די קרומקייטן פֿון פֿאַלשן נאַר;
מיר וועלן גיין, פֿאַרברידערטע אין ליידן,
דעם וועג פֿון חבֿרשאַפֿט דורך נײַעם צער.
ניט צום ערשטן מאָל, און ניט צום לעצטן
צו זײַן דערנידעריקט, צו זײַן פֿאַרשעמט:
דער העצער, הינטער אַקסל פֿון געהעצטן,
לויפֿט נאָך, ווי אַלעמאָל, מיט שטיינער פֿולע הענט.
איך פֿאַרלייקן ניט פֿון דיר, מײַן חבֿר,
מײַן עלנט וואַקסט צוזאַמען מיט מײַן פֿרייד:
עס לייגט זיך אויפֿן האַרץ אַן אַלטער זשאַבער
פֿון פֿונאַנדערפֿאַלנדיקע רייד.
איז דאָס דער גורל שוין אַזאַ פֿון אייביק?
אָ ניין, אָ ניין, ס׳איז בעסערס מיר באַשערט:
צו לעבן קינדיש, צו לעבן גלייביק —
אויף דעם בין איך געקומען אויף דער ערד.
ניט שטעל זיך אָפּ. ניט קוק זיך אום אויף הינטן —
ס׳וועט מיד ווערן דעם שטיינערוואַרפֿערס האַנט:
אַהינטער אונדז — אַ שטאַרבנדיקער ווינטער,
פֿאָראויס פֿון אונדז — אַן אויפֿגייענדיק לאַנד.
Gleybik
Nit der shpas fun lets vet undz tsesheydn,
un nit di krumkaytn fun falshn nar;
mir veln geyn, farbriderte in laydn,
dem veg fun khavrshaft durkh nayem tser.
Nit tsum ershtn mol, un nit tsum letstn
tsu zayn derniderik, tsu zayn farshemt:
der hetser, hinter aksl fun gehetsen,
loyft nokh, vi alemol, mit shteyner fule hent.
Ikh farleykn nit fun dir, mayn khaver,
mayn elnt vakst tsuzamen mit mayn freyd:
es leygt zikh oyfn harts an alter zhaber
fun funanderfaldike reyd.
Iz dos der goyrl shoyn aza fun eybik?
O neyn, o neyn, s'iz besers mir bashert:
tsu lebn kindish, tsu lebn gleybik —
oyf dem bin ikh gekumen oyf der erd.
Nit shtel zikh op. Nit kuk zikh um oyf hintn —
s'vet mid vern dem shteynervarefers hant:
ahinter undz — a shtarbndiker vinter,
foroys fun undz — an oyfgeyendik land.
Faithful
Not the mockery of a jester will part us,
and not the crookedness of a false fool;
we will go, brothered in suffering,
the way of friendship through new sorrow.
Not for the first time, and not for the last
to be humiliated, to be shamed:
the inciter, behind the shoulder of the hunted,
runs after, as always, with hands full of stones.
I do not deny from you, my friend,
my misery grows together with my joy:
there settles on the heart an old toad
of disintegrating talk.
Is this the fate already such from eternity?
Oh no, oh no, something better is destined for me:
to live childishly, to live faithfully —
for this I came upon the earth.
Don't stop. Don't look back —
the stone-thrower's hand will grow weary:
behind us — a dying winter,
ahead of us — a rising land.
Page 386. 'Gleybik' (Faithful/Believing): neither 'shpas fun lets' (mockery of a jester) nor 'krumkaytn fun falshn nar' (crookedness of false fool) will part them. They walk 'farbriderte in laydn' (brothered in suffering) through 'khavrshaft' (friendship — Hebrew 'khaver'). Not first or last to be 'derniderikt... farshemt' (humiliated, shamed). 'Der hetser' (the inciter) runs behind 'gehetsen' (the hunted) 'mit shteyner fule hent' (with hands full of stones). He doesn't deny his 'khaver' (friend — Hebrew): 'elnt vakst tsuzamen mit mayn freyd' (misery grows with joy). An 'alter zhaber' (old toad) settles on the heart from disintegrating talk. Is this 'goyrl... fun eybik' (fate from eternity — Hebrew 'goyrl')? No — 'besers mir bashert' (better destined for me): 'tsu lebn kindish, tsu lebn gleybik' (to live childishly, faithfully). Don't stop, don't look back — 'shteynervarefers hant' (stone-thrower's hand) will tire. Behind: 'shtarbndiker vinter' (dying winter); ahead: 'oyfgeyendik land' (rising land). Affirmation of hope despite persecution.
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