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Litwo! Ojczyzno moja
Litwo! Ojczyzno moja! Ty jesteś jak zdrowie.
Ile cię trzeba cenić, ten tylko się dowie,
Kto cię stracił. Dziś piękność twą w całej ozdobie
Widzę i opisuję, bo tęsknię po tobie.
POLISH POET -
ADAM MICKIEWICZ

English version
Lithuania, my country! You are as good health:
How much one should prize you, he only can tell
Who has lost you. Your beauty and splendour I view
And describe here today, for I long after you.

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We have focused on Polish poet ADAM MICKIEWICZ
Mickiewicz was born in Nowogródek in Lithuania and always thought of the region as his homeland. He studied at Vilnius University and went on to teach at the provincial school in Kaunas. He was among the founders of the secret patriotic Towarzystwo Filomatow / Philomaths' Society. An active member of the organization, he was arrested with a group of friends and imprisoned in the Basilian Monastery in Vilnius (1823-1824). He spent the years from 1824 to 1829 in central Russia, specifically in Odessa, Moscow and St. Petersburg, as a member of elite progressive circles in the Russian intelligentsia.

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For the Star
It's been a long way for that star
Now rising in our skies:
Its light has trekked a thousand years
To reach our earthborn eyes.

It may have long ago burned out
Amid the blue of space
Yet only now its ray has come
To set our sights ablaze.

That icon of a perished star
Climbs heaven's canopy:
We who saw not the light that was
Now see what's ceased to be.

It's ever thus when our desires
Go, spent, into the night.
Our love still follows after us
With an extinguished light.

La Steaua

La steaua care-a răsărit
E-o cale-atât de lungă,
Că mii de ani i-au trebuit
Luminii să ne-ajungă.

Poate de mult s-a stins în drum
În depărtări albastre,
Iar raza ei abia acum
Luci vederii noastre,

Icoana stelei ce-a murit
Încet pe cer se suie:
Era pe când nu s-a zărit,
Azi o vedem, şi nu e.

Tot astfel când al nostru dor
Pieri în noapte-adâncă,
Lumina stinsului amor
Ne urmăreşte încă.
MIHAIL EMINESCU
ROMANIAN POET

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MIHAIL EMINESCU

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Mihail Eminescu, pseudonym of Mihail Eminovici, (born Jan. 15, 1850, Ipoteşti, Moldavia, Ottoman Empire,—died June 15, 1889, Bucharest, Rom.), poet who transformed both the form and content of Romanian poetry, creating a school of poetry that strongly influenced Romanian writers and poets in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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