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 “E’en so it must be done by us
 * “With our children and our wives.

“And one companion and no more
 * “On all our pilgrimage,

“From Vesna to Morana, must
 * “Be ours, from youth to age.

“No more may we our foreheads strike
 * “Before the Gods we know,

“No more to them at eventide
 * “With meats in offering go.

“Where erst our fathers sacrific’d,
 * “Where erst they praises sung,

“They’ve fell’d the groves, and all the Gods
 * “Down from their thrones have flung.”

“Thou singest, Zaboi, heart to heart,
 * “A song from the midst of woe,

“Like Lumir, who with words and song
 * “Right well to move did know

“Proud Vyssehrad, and all the land
 * “That heard the god-like sound,