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DER YIDDISH-VINKL; A WEEKLY BRIEFING ON THE MOTHER TONGUE

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From: Forward
Date: 20050513
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Forward
05-13-2005
Once again, Dr. Joan Braman returns to Der Vinkl with her astute
translations of English classics into Yiddish. This time we have the
opening and closing stanzas of Percy Bysshe Shelley's...

Ode to the West Wind

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being

Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead

Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,

Pestilence-stricken multitudes! O thou,

Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed

The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,

Each like a corpse within its grave, until

Thine azure ...

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