PRAYER I.

To Tsars and kings

who tax the world,

Send dollars and ducats,

And fetters well-forged.

To toiling heads and toiling hands,

Laboring on these stolen lands

Endurance and strength.

To me, my God, on this sad earth,

Give me but love,

the heart’s paradise

And nothing more.

The Kobzar of the Ukraine Being select poems of Taras Shevchenko done into English verse with biographical fragments by Alexander Jardine Hunter · 第 61 / 70 题