In Search of Ukraine

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A country to be a country must have its heroes and its stories One need not look past recent weeks for a hero calling forth the hero in all As for stories of stories I invite you to the picture of Taras Schevchenko In place of honor in most every home Born into the slavery of serfdom the skill of his art gained him freedom a freedom which he also wished for his family and for his country and wrote verses to their worthiness A step that won him ten years on the steppes and a No pens or paper order from the Tsar And still he wrote, and somehow shared so that, on the banks of the Dnieper in 1861 his friend Mikhaylo Chaly could say in eulogy The poetry of Shevchenco has won for us the right of literary citizenship

Solidarity and support for Ukraine on the one month anniversary of the Russian onslaught.

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