Songs of Ukraina, with Ruthenian poems

HISTORICAL SONGS— Pan Kanovsky—Song of Feudalism 42 Marusya Bohuslavka (Duma) 44 Akhmet III. and the Zaporogians 47 Before Poltava 49 Time of Tartar Invasion (Fragment) 52 The S...

Let us drive—we will drive across the fields; Drive uphill and down the dales, Across the sands, across the stones. They will hear us coming in the vales; The sands shall murmur...

In the dawn, in the dawn the young Cossacks are crying, Far away from their loves, in prison lying, The dungeon’s dark, their hope is gone, But the Cuckoo calls, in the dawn, in...

O my field, my field! Ploughed with bones, Harrowed with my breast, Watered with blood From the heart, from the bosom! Tell me, my field, When will better days be?

“_Mud lies at the door, the door of the inn: Thatched is its roof with straw—O it’s a sin The money I’ve spent there—the sums untold, They might have topped the roof with solid...

“It is nothing, my Mother, nothing....” And she went to the hill again, While, weeping, the mother waited. That is not Herb-o’-Dreams[68] Blooming at night on the grave; A betro...

She lives on, our Ukraina! Her freedom and glory— Let us hope that once more fortune May illume Her story. Like the dew before the sunshine Our foes disappearing, We shall rule,...