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Zapovit (My Testament)
- Form
- Form Poem
- Year
- Year 1845
- Originally in
- Originally in Ukrainian
- Pages
- Pages 1
A poet writes his own burial instructions: lay him on a hill above the Dnipro, and when Ukraine has risen and the enemy's blood has washed away, only then remember him kindly.
When I am dead, then bury me In my beloved Ukraine, My tomb upon a grave mound high Amid the spreading plain,
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