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[BohdanDragonslayer]

Lets not forget "Independance Day" for Ukraine August 24th.

"History in Verse"

From the Scythians, to the present day,
independence, liberty, we now lay.
For future generations, freedom is our aim,
behind us, we lay others history of shame.
The Monguls desire, and rape of our land,
against the invading Turks, we did stand.
Marauding Tatars, on horseback did raid,
Czarist, against the Poles did us betrayed.
Kmelnitsky with honour, did in battle fight,
against the Poles, the Cossacks a heroic light.
Petlyura, took on the Great Bear might,
for a short time, the people did excite.
Centuries of unrest, under Austrian suppress,
to the famine of Stalin, no one will confess.
Many more die, under German madness,
Communism on the land, death & sadness.
Ukraina has suffered, at the hands of plenty,
to build the new future,we seek the help of many.
With freedom on hand, and in our heart,
from this wish, need, we must all never part.

...Copyright ╘2002 Bohdan Yurkiv

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INDEPENDENCE DAY 24th AUSUST

"Ukraina"

With love for Ukraina
in our heart,
to defend her independance,
is our due part.

Her national colours,
of yellow & blue,
represents the horizon,
on which our parents grew.

The colour blue,
is for the free sky,
yellow for the steppes,
on which the Cossacks died.

Her literature and Schevchenko,
we all do cherish,
her culture and traditions,
will never perish.

Love & pride in Ukraina,
we all grew,
her continued independance,
we all must pursue.

Copyright ╘2002 Bohdan Yurkiv

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