Adam Mickiewicz
poet · Lithuania · Paris · 1798–1855
A poet born in the old Polish-Lithuanian lands, deported to the Russian interior as a young man and never able to go home again. In Paris he wrote a long poem about the last gentry of his homeland.
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1834
Lithuania, my homeland! You are like health: how much you must be valued, only he learns who has lost you. Today I see and describe your beauty in all its splendour, because I long for you.
Litwo! Ojczyzno moja! ty jesteś jak zdrowie; Ile cię trzeba cenić, ten tylko się dowie Kto cię stracił. Dziś piękność twą w całéj ozdobie Widzę i opisuję, bo tęsknię po tobie.
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