To stand again on these stolen hills,

In a little cottage,

To bring my heart eaten out with sorrow

To rest at last, on the hills above the Dnieper.

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A Triumphal March

In 1845 Shevchenko was graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts at Petersburg. Shortly after he travelled to the Ukraine, purposing to devote his life to the service of his own people.