Lines by Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Mickiewicz
Polish poet · 1798–1855
Adam Mickiewicz was born in the lands of the old Grand Duchy of Lithuania and wrote in Polish. Pan Tadeusz, his epic of 1834, opens with a call to the homeland he could not return to.
Lithuania, my homeland! You are like health.
Litwo! Ojczyzno moja! ty jesteś jak zdrowie.
Pan Tadeusz, Book I, line 1
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