The Testament

LibriVox recording of The Testament by Taras Shevchenko. Read by LibriVox volunteers. Multilingual Monthly Poetry Project is a project oriented to gather multiple translations and multiple contributions of one chosen poem for the current month. Welcome to the world of interpretations! The poet, while being heavily ill, thought that he was about to die. Feeling the grieve toward the calamity of his Fatherland - Ukraine, he writes this poem as legacy to Ukrainians. Shevchenko tells people of Ukraine that even death won't make him leave his beloved land to go to God until he sees them throwing of