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ADAM MICKIEWICZ

moral liberty that the love of his country shall flow
from the love of God, "that the first movement of
our souls, our first sigh, shall be for God, for the
eternal native land in Heaven, and afterwards for the
Christian native land on earth : so that we shall stand
before God first as Christians, sons of the Kingdom, and
afterwards as Poles, sons of a Christian native land." '

Laying down rules how the Pole must pray, he
says : —

" In our prayer let us awaken in ourselves above
all the love of God, and in that love let us ask for
the true Christian native land in which the heavenly
native land lives and is propagated."

The Pole must raise himself to the heights of a
Christian country where reign love, truth, justice ;
and to the Pole who, on the contrary, abases himself,
will never be given the country for which he longs.
