... St. Ulrich binds the dead to God ...
In Ljubka Šorli's poetry, the worlds of the living and the dead often meet.
Cemetery in Tolmin
By the St. Ulrich

Ljubka Šorli’s poetry depicts many faces of love – romantic, patriotic, lyrical, landscape-inspired, and often also religious. The poet holds on to the Christian principle of love, which she sees as the key to the core humanist values: peace, freedom, reconciliation.

The Šorli family grave in Tolmin carries the poet’s epitaph to her younger sister Vera, who died from tuberculosis on 31 May 1931, before her 20th birthday:

Veri!
V poljano že prišla je lepa pomlad,
že trate so v sanji vzdrhtele …
Razcvele na njih so se majniške rože
in tebe so trudno objele …

Pri Svetem Urhu v Tolminu

Kjer se Soča, tostran Bučenice,
z ostrim tokom v strmi rob zareže,
Sveti Urh pokojne z Bogom veže
in posluša živih jok in klice.

Tukaj naših dragih so grobovi,
ne grobovi, grede okrašene,
od solza in prošenj posvečene.
Tukaj rajnih tihi so domovi.

Kadar v lini zvonček oglasi se
in k molitvi v cerkvico povabi,
gruča vernih pred oltar zvrsti se.

In takrat na žalost vsak pozabi –
v srcih na vstajenje up budi se.
Moč nobena jim ga ne ugrabi.

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