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Ordas
Grey Wolf

Sharp is the eye of the wild,
the free, the predator.
Like blue winter and torment,
clear and pitiless.

The wolf scours the fallow land.
Bark, you in the yard,
give a faint howl,
the shadow on the ice will hear you.

In the hoar frost he vanishes,
away from the brilliance of the ice.
Snapping Prince of Anguish,
guardian of our dreams.

He devours fresh snow,
reddened as he senses flesh.
He broods, licks his mouth,
growls, can’t hear himself.

Attila József 1932
translated from Hungarian by Maria Schiller and Hilary Kassman