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JAN KOCHANOWSKI - On Trifles
ON TRIFLES
You'll find here good trifles, also fair, and worthless,
Walls are not always built with the finest substance.
They put redder brick and dressed stone on the outside,
Broken pieces and cast off rubble go inside.
Translated by Michael J. Mikoś