{"id":5446,"date":"2022-04-07T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=5446"},"modified":"2022-04-07T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:24:06","slug":"722-testament-taras-shevchenko-ukraine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/722-testament-taras-shevchenko-ukraine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"722 |  Testament &#8211; Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Afbeelding-testament-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Afbeelding-testament-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Afbeelding-testament-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Afbeelding-testament-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Afbeelding-testament.jpg 943w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Testament<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I die, bury<br \/>\nme in the grave<br \/>\nin the middle of the broad steppes<br \/>\nof the lovely Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>so that it would be possible to see broad fields<br \/>\nand the Dnipro and rocks<br \/>\n\u2014and to hear<br \/>\nhow it roars!<\/p>\n<p>When it\u2019ll carry the blood of foes<br \/>\nfrom Ukraine to the blue sea,<br \/>\nthen I will rise from the field.<\/p>\n<p>I will leave everything and reach<br \/>\nGod himself<br \/>\nto be able to pray . . . but before<br \/>\nI know no God.<\/p>\n<p>Bury and rise up,<br \/>\nbreak your chains<br \/>\nand water your freedom<br \/>\nwith the evil blood of foes.<\/p>\n<p>And don\u2019t forget to drink to my soul,<br \/>\nremember me saying a kind quiet word<br \/>\nin the great family,<br \/>\nin the new, free family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taras Shevchenko<\/strong><strong>, Ukraine <\/strong>1814\u20131861<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Translated by Daria Mishueva \u2013 Stanley Barkan<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Testament When I die, bury me in the grave in the middle of the broad steppes of the lovely Ukraine so that it would be possible to see broad fields and the Dnipro and rocks \u2014and to hear how it roars! When it\u2019ll carry the blood of foes from Ukraine to the blue sea, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5447,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions\/5447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}