Ivan Benak

pučki pjesnik · folk poet  ·  Sopje 1933. – Valpovo 2015.Sopje 1933 – Valpovo 2015

Pjesme za djecu

Upozorenje

pas i krokodil · iz knjige Zekina sreća (1990.)

Poems for children

A Warning

the dog and the crocodile · from the book Bunny's Luck (1990)

Čuvaj se psakada režii kad se smijei bikakad papkomtravu brije!

Beware of the dogwhen it snarls,and when it grins so wide;and the bull,when his hoofshaves the grass aside!

Čuvaj se krokodilakoji ne hajei morskog psamakar ne laje!

Beware the crocodilethat doesn't care a jot,and the dogfish, too,though bark it does not!

Translator's note. In Croatian a shark is "morski pas", literally a "sea dog", hence the dog that doesn't bark; the dogfish, a small shark, keeps the joke in English.