I would Like! pg. 72

I Would Like!

I would like to see you, dear girl

And I would like to hear your darling song

And dream with you somewhere under the snowball tree[1]

Or among the flowers of spreading tree

I would like to constantly look at you, girl

And I would like to be forever beside you

For sad moments pass without you

And only to live happily with you ________.[2]

With the sound of a guitar, with the song of a nightingale

And with you, girl, I have a path

I would like to dream by the waters[3] waters of a stream

Oh! For that’s blissful, that moment…

I would like to braid a rose into your tresses

That I might adorn your temple with it

I would like, for you, charming girl

To warmly rub your palm with calamint

I would like to rest, [like] a sky-blue violet

At least once in life on your bosom

I would like, Oh! I would like, dear angel

To join your heart with my heart

                Zygmund Kowalski    Teodor Gira[4]

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[1] Or Viburnum Opulus. The snowball bush/tree is a Ukrainian national symbol.

[2] Blank in original

[3] Crossed out in original

[4] Sloppily crossed out? Sloppily underlined? In orginal.