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The Selkirk Grace in Polish

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Jan 17, 10, 22:34 #1

Burns' Night is a week away, and I have to say the Selkirk Grace at a Burns' Supper here in Warsaw. In Polish. I've a few ideas how I'll do it, but would appreciate any advice from a native speaker who has a way with words.

Here it is in English:

Some have meat and cannot eat
Some cannot eat that want it
But we have meat and we can eat
So let the Lord be thanked

NB.

Meat here doesn't neccesarily mean meat - in those days it could mean food in general.
Want at the time when this was written often meant something like to lack (brakować) and not just to want.

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Edited by: Trevek Jan 17, 10, 22:56 #2

I don't know the Grace but one of my students sent me My Luve is Like a Red Rose in Polish:

Miła ma jak czerwona róża
Burns Robert

Miła ma jak czerwona róża,
Kwitnąca w czerwcu róża - cud!
Miła ma jak melodia tkliwa
Słodko z najczystszych grana nut.
I żeś tak piękna jest, Dziewczyno,
Więc nie zna miary miłość ma;
Póty cię kochać będę, Miła,
Aż wyschną wody mórz do dna.
Aż wyschną wody mórz, Najdroższa,

I aż się w słońcu stopi głaz;
Będę cię kochał wciąż, Najdroższa,
Póki w nurt życia spływa czas.
O, żegnaj, moja Ty jedyna,
Żegnaj na kilka jeno chwil;
Wrócę znów, chociażbym miał przejść, Miła,
Dziesięć tysięcy długich mil!

Apparently it is pretty accurate.

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