207th anniversary of the Birth of the Great Kobzar!

Anniversary of 207 years since the birth of the Great Kobzar of Ukraine!

Taras Shevchenko's poem:

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Beside the cottage cherry-trees are swinging,

Above the cherries may-bugs winging,

Ploughmen with their ploughs are homeward heading,

And lassies as they pass are singing,

While mothers wait with supper ready.

Beside the cottage all the family’s eating,

Above, the evening star the sunset’s greeting.

The evening meal the daughter serves around,

When mother chides, from where she’s seated,

Her voice by singing nightingales is drowned.

Beside the cottage mother’s lullabying

Till little ones in golden slumbers’re lying;

She herself beside them falls asleep.

All is quiet, only the girls are vying

With nightingales and can’t their quiet keep.