“Hai, Cossacks!
Ye unfortunate captives,
Tell me—what day is it in Ukraine now?”
“Hai, captive maiden, Marusya Bohuslavka!
How may we know what day it is in Ukraine?
Are we not thirty years in captivity,
Seeing not God’s world,
Nor the blessed sun upon our eyes?
Because of this we know not what day it is in Ukraine now.”
Then the captive maid, Marusya Bohuslavka, Daughter of the Priest,