Canto III. Sonnet 110
Otto Kotouč translation
What will become of Slavs in hundred years? What will the whole of Europe come to be? Slav life, just as a mighty flow appears, Shall everywhere extend its boundary. That tongue, which German henchmen falsely low Proclaimed a tongue of slaves to all around, Shall ’neath our rival’s palace ceilings sound And even spoken be by lips of foe. Sciences shall likewise Slav channels see; Our people’s customs, dress and music will On both the Seine and Danube modish be. O would that I had rather been born when The Slavs shall rulers be! Or better still, I shall then rise up from my grave again.