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Up the social bird, the swallow, flieth,
Flieth from Otava, winding river,
And upon the window wide is seated
In Libussa’s golden seat paternal,
Vyssegrad, her sacred seat paternal;
And she mourneth, and she waileth sadly.
When her sister heard her thus complaining,
Her own sister in Libussa’s palace,
She within the Vyssegrad the princess
Begs to hold a court for the decision,
And the brethren twain to summon thither,
And to judge them as the law commandeth.
Messengers the princess bids to issue
Unto Svatoslaw from white Lubica,
Where the useful oaken forests flourish;
Unto Lutobor from Dobroslaw’s height,
Where the Labe^[1] drinketh the Orlica;
Ratibor from Kerkonossian mountains,^[2]
Where erst Trut the savage dragon slaughter’d;
Unto Radovan from Kamen Most, and
Jarozir from hills with water streaming;
Unto Strezibor from fair Sazava,
Sam’rod from the Mza,^[3] whose waves bear silver;

 

1. The Elbe.
2. The chain called the Sudetes.
3. The Mies.

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