Taras' interlude

from Grim Errands by Kitz Willman

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The "Grim Errands" CD comes in a jewel case with artwork designed by Kitz Willman. The 8-page booklet features the complete album lyrics and photographs by artist Posy Legge.

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lyrics

excerpts from The Meaning of Serfdom / Death of the Soul by Taras Shevchenko

The meaning of serfdom;
Three or four days of every week the serfs
Men and women alike
Must labor in their master’s fields for nought.
As the nights pass, so pass the days,
The year itself passes.
Again I hear the rustling of autumn leaves.
The light of the eyes is fading,
Memory is in the heart asleep.
Everything sleeps and I know not
If I live or am already dead.
For so, aimless
I wander in the world
No longer weep nor laugh.
Leave me not to a walking sleep.
With heart like bears in wintry den,
Nor yet like rotten log on earth to lie;
But give me to live, with the heart to live,
And love the people.
If you won’t
Let me curse them and burn up the world.
Terrible it is to fall into dungeons
Yet much worse—to sleep
And sleep and sleep in freedom;
To slumber for an eternity
And leave not a footprint behind.
All alike—whether one lives or dies.