<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589745" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Decebalus speaking to his people [Decebal către popor]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life is just a useless thing<br>If you don't live it like a king!<br>And now has come a wicked race<br>A yoke upon your neck to place;<br>It's bad enough that we were born<br>Why need some more disgrace?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If we were stargods from the sky<br>One day we all are gonna die!<br>A man may die when young and sane<br>Or when he's old and feeling pain<br>But it's a different thing to die<br>A wretched dog in chain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All those who fight, but sigh and whine<br>Even they were in the front line,<br>They are for us like any guy<br>Who runs away because he's shy!<br>The whining, now and anytime,<br>Is but a futile cry!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To hold their peace all cowards can<br>And all the dead, but real man<br>Must laugh aloud and say farewell<br>So let us laugh and let us yell<br>To make a wild and frightful noise<br>From sky to hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If all the streams were filled with blood<br>You'd smash the rascals in the mud.<br>When facing death you do not cry - <br>You must have fallen from the sky,<br>Because you laugh at all your foes<br>Who are afraid to die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They're Romans and they have this aim<br>But if our god, Zamolxis, came<br>Leading his people from on high<br>Even all those we would defy<br>And would not give them any land<br>Because they have their sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pick up your blades and blow the horn<br>It's bad enough that we were born <br>But who's afraid and has no might<br>Is free to go, to give up fight <br>And leave us on this battlefield<br>To do what it is right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've said enough, but one last word: <br>You've sworn on your terrible sword<br>So there's no need for such a fuss<br>To beg the gods and to discuss<br>Because the gods are in the sky,<br>But foes are here with us.</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589745" data-title="Decebalus speaking to his people [Decebal către popor] de George Coşbuc" data-description="Life is just a useless thing/If you don't live it like a king!/And now has come a wicked race/A yoke upon your neck to place;/It's bad enough that we were born/Why need some more disgrace?/If we were stargods from the sky/One day we all are gonna ..."></div> </div> </div>

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