De Libertate (Chorea Kozatska Cossacks Edition)
De Libertate (Latin: About Freedom) is a poem by Grigory Skovoroda, in which freedom is valued as the highest good. Written in 1757 or 1758. Dmytro Chyzhevsky assumed that "De libertate" is a fragment of a larger panegyric work in content.
The autograph of the poem is kept in the manuscripts department of the Institute of Literature named after T. G. Shevchenko, first printed in the Kharkiv edition of Skovoroda's works in 1894
What kind of wave is that?
what good is it?
Others say that it is golden.
Ah! not gold: if compared to gold
Against the wave, it's still a swamp...
Oh, when I don't make a fool of myself!
So that he could not stay free.
Be glorious forever, my chosen man,
Father of freedom, Hero Bohdan!
What is freedom?
What is the good in it?
They say it turns golden?
No, not a zloty: having equalized all the zloty,
Against freedom it is only a swamp.
Oh, if I did not sew in a fool,
So that I could not remain without freedom.
Glory will forever be with you, Father of Freedom, Bohdan the hero!
Text: De Libertate G.S. Skovoroda, Ukrainian folk song. Music: Taras Kompanichenko. video by Cossacks
The autograph of the poem is kept in the manuscripts department of the Institute of Literature named after T. G. Shevchenko, first printed in the Kharkiv edition of Skovoroda's works in 1894
What kind of wave is that?
what good is it?
Others say that it is golden.
Ah! not gold: if compared to gold
Against the wave, it's still a swamp...
Oh, when I don't make a fool of myself!
So that he could not stay free.
Be glorious forever, my chosen man,
Father of freedom, Hero Bohdan!
What is freedom?
What is the good in it?
They say it turns golden?
No, not a zloty: having equalized all the zloty,
Against freedom it is only a swamp.
Oh, if I did not sew in a fool,
So that I could not remain without freedom.
Glory will forever be with you, Father of Freedom, Bohdan the hero!
Text: De Libertate G.S. Skovoroda, Ukrainian folk song. Music: Taras Kompanichenko. video by Cossacks