Marxists Internet Archive: Subjects: Marxism and Art: Literature: Children's Literature
The Feeling of One Familyby Pavlo Tychyna
Source: A New Life Begun: Prose Poetry and Essays of the 1920s-1930s, Progress, 1987; Pavlo Tychina (1891-1967) was a Ukrainian Soviet poet. In his numerous poems and verses published in collections: Plough (1920), The Party Is Leading Us (1934), The Feeling of One Family (1938), Steel and Tenderness (1941), To Win and Live (1942), We Are Mankind's Conscience (1957), Communism's Clear Goals (1961)--Tychina glorifies the socialist revolution, the creative labour of the modern hero, the friendship among the Soviet peoples.
I'll stand my ground. They need not lure me
It is more lasting than all others,
Peal follows peal, reverberating;
For language is the spark igniting
Drink deep and often! Slake your thirst
Take any one you care to mention;
At first, I may not find it easy
For language is not empty verbiage,
The forests' murmur, the meadows' flowering,
Now, any foreign word you fancy |