diff --git a/Lab7/poem.txt b/Lab7/poem.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..abf2d52 --- /dev/null +++ b/Lab7/poem.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +A DAGGER + +I always carry tightly under my belt +a small african steel dagger +-- like those that blacks are used to playing with -- +that I bought from an old merchant in Algiers. + +I remember, as if it were now, the old shopkeeper, +who looked like an old oil painting by Goya, +standing next to long swords and tattered uniforms, +saying in a hoarse voice the following words : + +"This here dagger that you want to buy +legend has surrounded with eery stories, +and everyone knows that those who owned it at some time, +each has murdered one close to him. + +Don Basilio murdered Donna Julia with it, +his beautiful wife, because she was unfaithful. +Conte Antonio, one night, his wretched brother +was slyly murdering with this here dagger. + +A black his young lover out of jealousy +and some Italian sailor a Greek boatswain. +From hand to hand it passed and into mine. +Many things my eyes have seen, but this one makes me quiver. + +Come close and look at it, it has an anchor and a crest, +it's light, why take it, it's not even a quarter, +but I would advise you to buy something else." +-- How much? -- Seven francs only. As long as you want it, take it. + +A small dagger I have tightly in my belt, +that a whim made me make it my own; +and because I hate no one in the world to kill, +I am afraid lest some day I turn it against myself ... + + ~ Nikos Kavvadias ~