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92 Learn from the foreigner Despise not your own. Who forgets his mother Him God will punish. Foreigners will despise him Nor admit him to their homes; His children shall as strangers be Nor shall he find happiness on earth. I weep when I remember
 * the deeds of our fathers,
 * deeds I can not forget.

Heavy on my heart they lie;
 * Half my life I'd give
 * could I forget them.

Such is our glory
 * the glory of Ukraine.

So read then
 * that ye may see

Not in dream
 * but in vision
 * All the wrongs that lie
 * beneath yon mighty tombs.

Ask then of the martyrs
 * by whom, when and for what
 * were they crucified.

Embrace then
 * brothers mine—

The least of your brethren. That your mother may smile again, Smile through her tears.