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HONOR

I’d rather have honor

Rather than serve,

Rather have splendor

Instead of a nerve.

I’d more die on my feet

Than serve on my knees,

I’d rather die neat

Than emperors please.

Just give me my sword

Instead of a platter,

I give you my word

My self I don’t flatter.

I’d rather die brave

Than live as a coward,

I’d rather my stave

Than flatter out words.

I’d rather have honor

Honor and fame,

Rather a goner

It’s not all the same.

I’ve heard of a man

A warrior brave,

Never he ran

From army or knave.

His Tittle was Cossack

His homeland Ukraine,

He never turned back

To fetch for his bane.

When the Turks came a ‘conquerin

Europe n’ all,

Just look at the faith within

Muslims are all.

But when come to his home

His home land that is,

They wanted the throne

He said” hear this”

You’ll not take our Homeland

Our seas or our fields,

You’ll not get to where I stand

Our lives we won’t yield.

they replied:

If you surrender now

You’ll serve us as slaves,

Our yokes we’ll bestow

Instead of our staves.

The choice is yours,

The Cossacks replied with their saying:

I’d more die on my feet

Then serve on our knees,

I’d rather die neat

Than Sultans to please.

The two armies charge at each other!

This grat famous battle

Did not last for long,

The Turks on their sadles

Had not stood so strong!

The Cossacks defeated

Victory was theirs,

The Turks had retreated

For fear f the snares.

The Cossacks wouldn’t miss

Their chance for revenge,

Their wives they would kiss

And take up their cahllenge.

The Turks on their ships

Cossacks on their Chaikas,

The words on their lips

Slaves they won’t make us.

A day and a night

Arrived they at last,

The Turks on their flight

From the Cossackan blast.

The first ships to shore

The Turkish that is,

Recruited some more

Soldiers of his.

They stood like a wall

Their shields their own size,

Defending were all

Some stupid some wise.

AT THE COSSACK SHIPS :

Men,This battl might not be won,we may not live another hour,day,minute,or moment.We may not even live to ever see our homeland Ukraine…But Histoty will know,that we,the Cossacks,as free men,chose to FIGHT!!!Lets do it!

The first of the ships

Docked on the shore,

They broke up their whips

Only swords they would store.

A battle ensues

A bloody one,true,

Scars and a bruise

Casualties not few

The battle was won

The cossacks defeated,

Their army so strong

The Turks they had beaten.

But that wasn’t all

Of course not my friend,

They still had to thrall

Their burning revenge.

They burned down their portal

Their main one at that,

They left no lives at all

Ponder on that.

-Bogdan Mynka Alexandrovich

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