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98 Dost thou look for restoration? Expect not such glory. Robbed are thy people. For what care the wicked lords For the ancient Cossack fame?

And Traktemir above the hill Scatters its wretched houses Like a drunken beggar's bags. And there is old Manaster Once a Cossack town. Is that the one that used to be? All, all is gone, as a playground for the kings The land of the Zaporogues and the village All, all the greedy ones have taken. And you hills, you permitted it! May no one look on you more Cursed ones!—No! No! Not you I curse, But our quarreling generals, And the inhuman Poles.

Forgive me, my lofty ones, Lofty ones and blue, Finest in the world, and holiest, Forgive me, I pray God. For so I love my poor Ukraina, I might blaspheme the holy God, And for her lose my soul. On a curve of lofty Trektemir A lonely cottage like an orphan stands,