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“I Turned into the Kitchen” by Sándor Petőfi 🇭🇺 (1 Jan 182331 Jul 1849)
Translated from the Hungarian
I turned into the kitchen with my pipe,
Because I wanted to put it on light …
That is, I would have liked to do it,
If my pipe would not have been lit!
But my pipe was nicely burning,
That’s not why I planned to turn in,
I went ’cause something I noticed
By no means I wanted to miss!
What I saw was a pretty girl
Bustling about in a flickering skirt,
She made fire in the oven,
Her eyes had more fire in them!
We looked into each other’ eyes,
Until I became mesmerized,
All the fire in my pipe has died
And started a flame in my heart.