Song to the Men of England
New Model Army| Original | La trascrizione in caratteri latini di Un du akerst: |
| SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low? Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich robes your tyrants wear? Wherefore feed and clothe and save, From the cradle to the grave, Those ungrateful drones who would Drain your sweat - nay, drink your blood? [Wherefore, Bees of England, forge Many a weapon, chain, and scourge, That these stingless drones may spoil The forced produce of your toil?] Have ye leisure, comfort, calm, Shelter, food, love's gentle balm? Or what is it ye buy so dear With your pain and with your fear? The seed ye sow another reaps; The wealth ye find another keeps; The robes ye weave another wears; The arms ye forge another bears. Sow seed - but let not tyrant reap Find wealth - let no impostor heap Weave robes - let not the idle wear Forge arms, in your defence to bear. [Shrink to your cellars, holes, and cells; In halls ye deck another dwells. Why shake the chains ye wrought? Ye see The steel ye tempered glance on ye.] With plough and spade and hoe and loom Trace your grave and build your tomb And weave your winding-sheet, till fair England be your sepulchre! | UN DU AKERST Un du akerst un du zeyst, Un du fiterst un du neyst. Un du hamerst un du shpinst Zog, mayn folk, vos du fardinst? Kling-klang, kling-klang! Klapt der hamer mit zayn gezang! Kling-klang, kling-klang! Tserayst di keytn fun shklafn-tsvang! Vebst dayn vebshtul tog un nakht, Grobst undz ayzn fun der shakht, Brengst di shefe undz arayn, Ful mit tvue un mit vayn. Kling-klang, kling-klang! Klapt der hamer mit zayn gezang! Kling-klang, kling-klang! Tserayst di keytn fun shklafn-tsvang! Nor vu iz dayn tish gegreyt? Nor vu iz dayn yomtev-kleyd? Nor vu iz dayn sharfe shverd? Veikhes glik iz dir bashert? Kling-klang, kling-klang! Klapt der hamer mit zayn gezang! Kling-klang, kling-klang! Tserayst di keytn fun shklafn-tsvang! Man fun arbet oyfgevakht, Un derken dayn groyse makht, Ven dayn shtarker orem vil, Blaybn ale reder shtil. |
