Lekë MATRËNGA
POETRY
Spiritual song
I call you all who wish indulgence,
All good Christians, men and women,
Go to mass, the Lord commands it,
For no man is sinless 'mongst us;
Blithe is he who ponders God
And remembers he is mortal,
Christ will welcome him to heaven
With his children and his brethren.
[Cghíthaeue u thaerés...,
from the volume Embsuame e chraesterae, 1592. Translated
from the Albanian by Robert Elsie and first published in English
in History of Albanian literature, New York 1995, vol.
1, p. 56] |
Albanian Literature in Translation
Early
Authors (16th - 18th centuries)
