"For Thee, O pure Lady,
O Mother Immaculate,
We go to defend Christ,

Our Lord.

"For thee, O dear country,
For you, O white eagles,
We will crush every enemy.

On the Field of Glory."

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1]: Kromer.

[Footnote 2]: His pets.

[Footnote 3]: On Saint Stephen's day people used to cast various kinds of grain at the priest at the altar in memory of the stoning of that saint.

[Footnote 4]: The Elector just mentioned, i. e., the Elector of Brandenburg.

[Footnote 5]: Among the Poles and Slavs generally death is represented as a woman.