# The Tempest

Adam Mickiewicz

> Utwór opracowany został w ramach projektu Wolne Lektury przez fundację Wolne Lektury.

The sail is torn, the rudder bursts, the waters roar,
All people yell, the pumps release a baleful wail,
The ropes yanked out of deckhands' palms: we've lost the sail!
Lo! Sun in blood-shade setting, hope there is no more.

The gale in triumph howls, and on the sodden hills
That rise above the chaos of the fatal sea,
A genius of death ascended, and now he
Assails the fortress long destroyed and further kills.

Some on the deck lie dying, drowning in despair;
Some fall in neighbor's arms and sadly say good bye;
Some pray to drive the death away, some pray to die.

One passenger sat calmly in a corner there,
And thought: Oh happy he who's swooned amid this hell,
Or prays or knows a man to say the last farewell!