The poem Like Harps, Like Harps (from Pavlo Tychyna: The Complete Early Poetry Collection) by Pavlo Tychnya is as follows:
Like harps, like harps -
the golden groves resounded
Selfstrumming:
spring is coming
Fragrant,
Adorned
With flower-pearls
With thoughts, with thoughts-
The azure overflowed like the sea with ships
Tender-toned:
There will be fiery
Battle!
There will be laughter, mother of pearl
Lament.
I will stop and gaze about -
Rivulets everywhere like chimes, a golden lark
Undulating:
Spring in full bloom
Bountiful,
Adorned
With flower-pearls.
My love, my dearest -
Whether you walk forlorn, or filled with brimming happiness
There beyond the fileds:
O, open up
The wheat husk of eyelashes:
There will be laughter, and mother-of-pearl
Lament...
1914
Why is "laughter" and "mother of pearl" followed by "lament" twice in this poem?
