HARASYMOWICZ JERZY The tower of melancholy (cover by Daniel Frost).

Kraków 1958, Wydawnictwo Literackie, pp. 118, form. 12 x 17, booklet cover slightly scuffed, 4 pages inside bear traces of crumpling, 4 pages have factory-cut bottom margin 0.5 cm wide. Very neat condition. The cover and title page were designed by Daniel Mróz.

"...From the castle I have a view of the tower of melancholy with white stripes and black

There the evil mournful bands draw up and the angel to the children a snow bow

It's opposite and on the wall a painting of winter

The trees of the orchard like lunatics howl blackened with hair fanned out

With hands pressed tightly to the torso with a straitjacket of straw

Across the halls of the castle the cobwebbed paths hang like frosted telegraph wires

Then a dwarf with so many eyes that his head shimmers like a frog's croak This dwarf dared

To set fire to my golden curls I do not quench my laziness stricken

And I'm stuck on a throne of crackling fire in a hall empty of blue vitriol"