$PROM My brothers, descendants of Prometheus!
"In the catacombs"
I will pay homage to the titan Prometheus,
who did not create his people as slaves,
who enlightened not with words, but with fire,
who fought not in humility, but with zeal,
and suffered not for three days, but without number,
and did not call his tyrant his father,
but the universal despot, and cursed,
foretelling doom to all the gods.
"Native Land", Poltava, 1906