Géza Gyóni - Csak egy éjszakára... versuri traducere în engleză

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Just for a single night...

Just for a single night, send them!
The factious1ones, the overzealous warriors
Just for a single night:
The ones who keep proclaiming it loudly: 'We never forget!'
When the death-machine is playing a tune above us
When the invisible seed of the fog is birthed
And the murderous lead-swallows2are flying about, scattered everywhere
 

Just for a single night, send them!
The ones looking for specks when a log breaks3
Just for a single night:
When the bombs let out their deafening cry
And the bloody ground moans as if its stomach was being cut open
The explosive bullet's light flares up
And the bloody waters of the old Vistula4splash out of its bed
 

Just for a single night, send them!
The ones who count every usurious penny
Just for a single night:
When in the middle of the smouldering center of a bomb-volcano
Men are spinning like tree leaves
And when they fall to the ground, oh what a horrible fall
The beautiful, red5warriors are just black skeletons
 

Just for a single night, send them!
The faithless ones and the hustlers6
Just for a single night:
When the burning throat of hell opens up
And blood is trickling on the ground and it trickles from the trees
When the tattered tent whimpers in the wind
And the dying soldier7sighs: my son... my wife...
 

Just for a single night, send them!
The ones who love their homeland with long, barking tongues
Just for a single night:
When a blinding star's light erupts
Let them see the reflection of their faces in the San river8
When it's meandering down, evaporating Hungarian blood
So they can scream in tears: My God, no more!
 

Send them, just for a single night!
So they can remember the suffering of their mother
Just for a single night:
How they would huddle together, frightened and cold
How every single one of them would writhe on the ground, repeating: 'Mea culpa!'9
How they would tear up their shirts and beat their chests
How they would yell in tears: My Christ, what more needs to happen!
 

My Christ, what more needs to happen! My relatives,10what should I give
In exchange for the price of blood, just let me stay11!
How would every single one of them would take oaths
How they would call to Christ, how they would call to God:
Whom they never knew in their faithless pride
I'll never ever go against my Hungarian blood one more time!
Just send them there for a single night!
 

• 1. 'Of or relating to faction: such as
  a: caused by faction (factious disputes)
  b: inclined to faction or the formation of factions
  c: seditious
• 2. 'Swallow' meaning the passerine songbirds not the verb for passing something into your esophagus.
• 3. Biblical reference:
  'Matthew 7:3-5 'Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log...'
  
• 4. The longest river in Poland.
• 5. In this context, red means healthy. Like red cheeks.
• 6. 'A person who employs fraudulent or unscrupulous methods to obtain money swindler.
  
• 7. 'Honvéd': hon (homeland) + védeni (to protect).
• 8. A river in Poland.
• 9. Latin phrase:
  My fault! / My mistake!
• 10. Literally: My bloods / Those who are of my blood.
• 11. Meaning: survive.

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