Poetry by Taras Shevchenko

Author:Taras Shevchenko [Shevchenko, Taras]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ukrainian poetry -- Translations into English, Shevchenko, Taras, 1814-1861
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2022-08-13T18:12:00+00:00

Arouse ye, be men!

For evil days come.

Quickly a people enchained

Shall tear off their fetters;

Judgment will come,

Dnieper and the hills will speak.

A hundred rivers

flow to the sea

with your children’s blood,

Nor will there be any to help.

Smoke clouds hide the sun

Through the ages

Your sons shall curse you.

Wash yourselves⁠—

The divine likeness in you

defile not with slime.

Befool not your children

that they were born to the world

to be lordlings.

The eyes of men untaught

see deep, deep

into your soul.

Poor things they may be,

yet they know the ass

in the lion’s skin.

And they will judge you,

the foolish will pronounce the doom

of the wise.

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