Ride! Ere yet dawns your wedding day.’”
HISTORICAL SONGS
PAN[[15]] KANOVSKY—SONG OF FEUDALISM
Bohuslav was Pan Kanovsky’s—Dancing there,
Bonderivna—as the Pava[[16]] she was fair.
Then he saw her, the wild pigeon, full of grace—
And she felt upon her cheek his embrace.
“Pan Kanovsky! You may take e’en my shoes
Off my feet.... But I kiss whom I choose!”
Then the good folk of the town whispered low: