Ezop a brabenec - Helena Vondráčková перевод на английский

Ezop a brabenec

Jednou z lesa domů se nesa
Moudrý Ezop,
Potkal brabce, který brabence
Málem sezob.
Brabenec se chechtá,
Ezop se ho hned ptá,
čemu že se na trávě v lese
Právě řehtá?

Já, povída brabenec,
Se taky rád hlasitě chechtám, chechtám,
Když pupenec kyselinou leptám.
Vím, totiž ten brabenec,
Mravenečník, že se mě neptá, neptá,
Pozře mě, ať se chechtám, nechechtám.

Kampak by to došlo
Třeba s pouhou ponravou,
Kdyby měla plakat,
že je ptačí potravou.
Ty, ač nejsi brabenec,
Se taky rád hlasitě chechtej, chechtej
A na svou bídu si nezareptej!

Ty, ač nejsi brabenec,
Se taky rád hlasitě chechtej, chechtej
A na svou bídu si nezareptej!

Aesop and the Chattering Sparrow

Once came from the forest
Wise Aesop,
Met a sparrow, who temerariously
Nearly ate a chatterer.
The sparrow was laughing,
Aesop asked him right away,
at what he was laughing
Right here in the forest?

I, says the sparrow,
I also like to laugh out loud, laugh out loud,
When I corrode a bloodroot with acid.
You see, that sparrow,
The anteater, doesn't ask me, doesn't ask me,
Eats me, whether I laugh or not.

Where would it end
With a mere fondness,
If it had to cry,
that it was bird food.
You, though you are not a sparrow,
You also like to laugh out loud, laugh out loud
And don't grumble about your misery!

You, though you are not a sparrow,
You also like to laugh out loud, laugh out loud
And don't grumble about your misery!