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Rh Things that are not. Nor yet in Heaven, Nor in stranger's fields, But in your own house Lies your righteousness, Your strength and your liberty.

In the world is but one Ukraine, Dnieper—there is only one. But you must off to foreign lands To look for something grand and good. Wealth of goodness and liberty, Fraternity and so forth, you found. And back you brought to Ukraine From places far away A wondrous force
 * of lofty sounding words,

And nothing more. Shout aloud
 * That God created you for this,

To bow the knee to lies, To bend and bend again
 * Your spineless backs

And skin again
 * Your brothers—

These ignorant buckwheat farmers.

Try again
 * to ripen crops of truth and light

In Germany
 * or some other foreign place

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