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Rh Ugly offspring
 * of famous ancestors."

You read the writings
 * of the great Slavophils,

Push in among them,
 * Get on so well

That you know all the tongues
 * of the Slavonic peoples

Except your own—God help it. "Oh, as for that
 * Sometime we'll speak
 * our own language

When the German
 * shows us how,

Our history too,
 * he will explain,

Then we'll be alright!" It came about finely
 * on the German advice.

They learned to speak so well
 * That even the mighty German
 * could not understand them,

Not to speak of common folks. Oh what a noise and racket! "There's Harmony, and Force And Music—and everything. And as for History The Epic of a free people! What's all this about the poor Romans, Brutus, etcetera, and the Devil knows what? Have we not our Brutuses