UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM

(This anthem has several variants; one of these, seemingly the most popular, is chosen for the two stanzas here translated.)

She lives on, our Ukraina!

Her freedom and glory—

Let us hope that once more fortune

May illume Her story.

Like the dew before the sunshine

Our foes disappearing,

We shall rule, Oh, youthful brethren!

Our land, nothing fearing.

Chorus. Soul and body sacrificing

For our freedom cherished,

We shall show we are the sons of

Mighty Cossacks perished!

Nalivaiko and Zalizniak

And Trasílo—falling—

Urge us to our sacred duty,

From the grave-hills calling!

175Let us keep in our remembrance

Deaths of Cossacks knightly,

For our youth, our splendid manhood,

We would not spend lightly.

Chorus. Soul and body sacrificing

For our freedom cherished,

We shall show we are descendants

Of great Cossacks perished!

The Letchworth Temple Press England

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Silently corrected palpable typographical errors; retained non-standard spellings and dialect.

Reindexed footnotes using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.

The music files are the music transcriber’s interpretation of the printed notation and are placed in the public domain.

In the original score, the tenor part is shown as a regular treble clef, and is understood to be sang an octave lower. To achieve the same results in modern music notation, the octave treble clef with the number 8 printed below is known as the vocal tenor clef. It plays the music an octave lower.