Sapanta, Romania
Merry Cemetery
Some English Translations
by Doru, a Romanian expatriate now living in Toronto
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I here rest And my name is Stan Ion The Ion of Mihaies (Father’s first name was Mihaies, the family name Stan). And I was a cop in Iasi (city name) And from there in Brasau (folk name for Brasov) I was a good cop But now I have to give you my salute Since you will not see me for long As I left this world At the age of 58 In the year 1952 I died
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I here rest And Frunza Andrei is my name. From Iasi I am And here I came to get married. As long as I lived in this world, On a tractor I lived, I worked in the forest at Sapanta And my life was done, Off the tractor I fell. Four children I left and my wife Who was left alone to see them grow up.
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I here rest Toader Basu is my name As long as in this world I lived Goats and sheep I slaughtered And calf and lambs And their meat I sold to housewives. But I left this life At the age of 58 in March 1958
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Near my father I rest, Anuta Osului is my name. With my feet I did not walk (handicapped?) With my hands I worked. And I had a son to help me But I left everything And he not yet married. And as long as I lived Little good life I had. And you, sisters and nieces I beg to take care of Ion And I wish you all long lives Since I left my life at 66
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On
this Earth as long as I lived
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(belonging probably
to a Communist Party official, as attested by the symbol of the hammer and
sickleJ Here I rest and Holdis Ioan is my name. As long as I lived The Party I loved And I fought To make the people happy. I children did not have And I grew and the village farmstead I helped. Lived 72 years 1975. |
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(Tuica is a pretty
potent brew made from plums, biggest source of drinking excess in Romania) Tuica is pure venom She brings tears and torment And this it brought to me too Death put me under her foot. He who likes tuica a lot Will have at the end my lot As I have loved tuica a lot And with it in hand I died. Here rests Dumitru Holdis Lived 45 years Dead of forced (read: sudden, compelled) death In 1958. |
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