“Hope” by Lesya Ukrainka

Hope

I have no happiness, and I am not free,

There’s only one hope left for me:

To return to Ukraine once again,

And see my native land in the end,

Have another look at the blue Dnipro –

No matter if I live or die there alone;

Have one more look at the steppe and graves,

Let one last passionate reverie rave…

I have no happiness, and I am not free,

There’s only one hope left for me.

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Lesya Ukrainka, 1871-1913

“Hope” is in the public domain

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