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Monuments of our fathers! how many of you each year are destroyed

by the axes of the merchants, or of the Muscovite government!

These vandals leave no refuge either for the forest warblers or

for the bards, to whom your shade was as dear as to the birds.

Yet the linden of Czarnolas, responsive to the voice of Jan

Kochanowski, inspired in him so many rimes!67 Yet that prattling

oak still sings of so many marvels to the Cossack bard!68