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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589689" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>We want land! [Noi vrem pământ!]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without a shelter, hungry, blue,<br>You put a burden on my back<br>And spat me and enchained my neck,<br>I was a dog for you. <br>Upstart boyar, maybe you planned<br>To satisfy the hell's demand<br>To be your dogs, we are in chains,<br>Suffer the burdens and the pains<br>And pull the yoke, obey the reins,<br>But we want land!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A loaf of bread from yesterday<br>If see with us, you want it bad,<br>You send to war our dearest lad<br>And take the girls away. <br>You curse what's holy, you command,<br>What's mercy you can't understand!<br>And our children starve to death<br>We pity them and lose our breath,<br>But we could get a little strength<br>If we had land. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even the graveyard you reclaim,<br>You make it field, we pull the plow,<br>And all the bones are scattered now,<br>An awful shame!<br>These are our bones, we can't withstand<br>For you don't seem to understand <br>You take us out when the wind raves,<br>You pull the dead from the deep graves,<br>Oh, for their sake our heart now craves<br>A plot of land!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We wish to have, like any guy,<br>A tomb where bones will stay all piled<br>To know that they won't be defiled<br>The day we die. <br>For our children there will stand<br>Shedding their tears on the gray sand,<br>Not knowing where our body lies,<br>They'll look around, they'll strain their eyes;<br>As Christians, each of us now cries<br>We want some land!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To pray, we don't have time a lot,<br>For our lives belong to you,<br>We have a soul that's good and true,<br>Which you forgot!<br>You made a vow raising your hand<br>Not to allow us to withstand;<br>To beat us when we cry and wail<br>And if we run, throw us in jail,<br>Shot us with bullets if assail<br>To grab some land. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Into the ground, you know it's true,<br>You have your wheat. We have our tears<br>And mothers, sisters, brothers, dears;<br>Away with you! <br>This land is holy, understand,<br>It's our cradle, tomb at hand;<br>We've guarded it with our blood<br>And very often, like a flood,<br>Our tears have flown over the mud,<br>So we want land!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have no strength, we've lost our words,<br>But we don't want to beg again,<br>Yet, you keep causing us much pain <br>Cruel fleeting lords!<br>May God be gracious when we crave <br>Your blood, to spill it like a wave!<br>When we don't want to stand aside<br>When hunger leaves us with no pride<br>Christs if you were, you couldn't hide<br>Even in grave!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Co%C5%9Fbuc">George Coşbuc</a>, translated by Octavian Cocoş<div class=q>
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