Boleslav Jablonský

“ Even so, when man his fellow
⁠With despotic rule doth sway,
Easily he can compel him
⁠Humble reverence to pay;
Timidly to quail before him,
⁠Kiss the scourge that gives him pain;—
He to all things can constrain him,
⁠But his love he cannot gain! ”

“ Yet did they strike and break for evermore
⁠Against the rocks of the Bohemian race!
‘Seek’st of that hero deed the monument,
⁠Which half the world the bliss of freedom gave?
Nature herself a glorious monument
⁠Prepar’d for her true sons and warriors brave. ”