An eastern instrument: vide “Lallah Rookh.” ↩
The opening words of this song are nearly as quoted in the text. The melody is of a plaintive and melancholy character. It is included in Sowinski’s collection of national music, published at Paris. ↩
A common equivalent for into the wide world. ↩
With these few concluding words the poet indicates his own presence at the concluding festivities, and personal cognisance of all the circumstances related. We are reminded of Chaucer’s parenthetical phrase in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, “and then there was myself, there was no mo.” The conclusion is, however, probably meant to imitate the general ending of Polish fairy tales, which commonly finish as this poem does, by a sort of rhyming couplet, assuring us that the narrator was himself present at the wedding-feast, and shared in the festivities. ↩
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Pan Tadeusz
was published in 1834 by
Adam Mickiewicz.
It was translated from Polish in 1885 by
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