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K. Baczyński: Wiatr (The Wind), conclusion

And see, O stranger from another shore
as you unearth these whitened bones
- with all our battles ages cold -
my skeleton and in its grasp
the emblem of my fatherland.

concluding lines from Baczyński's Wiatr (1943), Śpiew z Pożogi, 1947. 

Translation © 2026 Jurek Kirakowski