“Lithuania, my country! You are as good health;
How much one should prize you, he only can tell, Who has lost you…”

— Adam Mickiewicz , Pan Tadeusz

Litwo! Ojczyzno moja! ty jesteś jak zdrowie;
Ile cię trzeba cenić, ten tylko się dowie, Kto cię stracił...
Opening lines, translated by Marcel Weyland
Pan Tadeusz (Sir Thaddeus) http://www.ap.krakow.pl/nkja/literature/polpoet/mic_pan.htm

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Litwo! Ojczyzno moja! ty jesteś jak zdrowie; Ile cię trzeba cenić, ten tylko się dowie, Kto cię stracił…

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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