Coming of the Lord

a verse translation of a poem by Endre Ady

Joe Váradi 🇭🇺
Vagabond Voices
1 min readNov 27, 2022

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artist: Mher Chatinyan

When I was cast out,
When I carried my soul, stumbling weakly,
Quietly and unexpected
The Lord did embrace me.

Silently he came,
Without brass herald, with arms open, earnest,
Not by daylight’s blazing luster,
By night’s howling tempest.

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Joe Váradi 🇭🇺
Vagabond Voices

Editor of No Crime in Rhymin' | Award-Winning Translator | ..."come for the sarcasm, stay for my soft side"