from A TOAST
Slovene national anthem

Come visit us. Slovenia awaits you.

WA AHLAN WASAHLAN

Slovenia offers intellectual capital in abundance, high quality products such as industrial and agricultural equipment, textiles, leather products, wood and wooden products, furniture, foodstuffs, glassware, vehicles, pharmaceuticals, white ware, electrical appliances, tires, electronics, sports equipment, foot ware, high quality leisure ware, steel products, industrial non-metallic products,
equipment for banking industry, airport fittings, tools, insulation materials, medical equipment.

Possibilities existing the field of tourism,
health spas, medical expertise, technical supports,
culture.

By late autumn 2000 a large business conference will be held in Slovene capital Ljubljana, under sponsorship of Slovene Chamber of Economy under title Business Destination Yemen
Investment Opportunities in Republic of Yemen updated data's and investment and business opportunities will be presented to the Slovene public and interested companies, entrepreneurs, institutions......

                          

     Irena Knehtl

from "The Toast" Slovene national anthem

Slovene is the mother tongue of relatively small, and independent nation, Slovenia. It used to be language that played a key role at
critical junction of Slovene history. But the distillation of a modern Slovene consciousness in the nineteen century was made possible only by the work of France Prešeren. When Slovenes were able to form a nation out of disparate and disparaged parts, it was Prešerens poetry as their touchstone. And even at the end of the twentieth century his impact continues to be felt, Slovenes turned to Prešeren for their
national anthem. OF such stuff is a "national poet" in fact made....

I
n hope, in dread long did I dwell,
To hope and fear I said farewell
My heat, now empty, holds no cheer
It yearns again for hope and fear....

This my poem is a vessel which contains your name
Monarch of my heart, the Kingdom wherein reign your
name...
In it I shall to my Slovene brothers gladly bring
from the west into the east those sweet refrains--
your name..
On the vessel, etched in golden letters, will be read
by all peoples, the great glory which attains,
your name...

... if a seed one day sprout, why, he who sows it
does not know,
If a sapling will have branches, he who grows,
it does not know
having roamed the world, the trader plans what he has
gained,
if he can expect some profits to dispose,
he does not know
and the soldier, whom the trumpet bids to hear the
cannons roar,
what his pay for heat and thirst and wounding blows,
he does not know
Lo! the poet of these ghazals, if you read them or do
not
and if seeing them may melt your hearts cold snow -
he does not know.

.... deeps wishes full of longing
have been born
that fame will make up name
through yours, so proud!
while our sweet native songs resound
in turn....

... and they will blossom them with pleasure
proud
as flowers bid farewell to winter gales
anew the springtime miracle prevails
and scatters over the trees a floral crowd....

A wreath of Sonnets:

for Slovenes I a poets wrath devise,
I fifteen sonnets will together weave
and so a thrice-sung Master Theme conceive
that it with all the rest will harmonize.

Within my theme the sonnets sources rise,
in turn therein their endings they retrieve,
their first and last lines, braided, interweave,
this wreath your poet thus personifies

the fount of all my thoughts one love supreme
they wake as dark gives way to dawns ascent,
when they have slept inert through nightly dream.

Of my whole life are you the ornament:
when I am gone will sound the Master Theme,
Of both my pain, your praise a monument.....


Reference: France Prešeren, Poems

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