“Sound as a burrow'd marmot he slept
On the straw where he'd tumbled fully-dressed that night.”

— Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz

Book Four: Tadeusz' Awakening (trans. Christopher Adam Zakrzewski). <br class="br">Pan Tadeusz (Sir Thaddeus) http://www.ap.krakow.pl/nkja/literature/polpoet/mic_pan.htm

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Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, trans… 1798–1855

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