“No sound doth great the still of night;
My mother land in silence lies;
Yet oft is heard an anguished moan
As Georgia in her slumber sighs. I stand alone … the mountains, shades
The slumber of my land caress.
O God! O God! when will we wake
And rise again to happiness?”

— Ilia Chavchavadze

Elegy, p. 60
Anthology of Georgian Poetry (1948)

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Georgian poet and politician; a saint of Georgian Orthodox … 1837–1907

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