[Chris Childers]

Dragon Tale

A seven-headed dragon kid was fighting with each other.
Mom warned him all to stop, but they ignored her–his own mother!
And though the reason for the fight not one of him could tell,
he bit themselves right off–and they bit off himself as well!
..The moral of this tragedy, this tale that you've just read's:
..Don't quarrel over silly things, and never lose your heads.



Original:

Sárkánymese

Egy hétfejű sárkánykölök csúnyán összevesztek.
Rájuk szólt az anyja, de ő nem maradtak veszteg.
Bár már egy sem emlékeztek, hogy min kapott össze,
végül leharapta egymást, önmagát is közte.
..Ja, hogy hol itt a tanulság? Szájbarágom, tessék:
..Minden fejtúltengés vége teljes fejetlenség.



Line-by-line prose crib:

A seven-headed dragon cub started fighting each other in an ugly way.
His mother scolded them, but he wouldn't leave each other alone,
And though none of them could remember* what he was disagreeing over,
in the end, he bit each other['s heads] off, his own among them.
..Oh, so what's the moral in this? I'll spell it out for you. Here:
..An overabundance of heads always leads to complete headlessness.

*The verb is in the third-person plural.