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"Have you not yet read it in my eyes?" replied Robak. "Does your

heart still tell you nothing? Ah, brother, if you have one drop

of the Soplicas' blood in your veins, just consider: the French

are striking from in front-what if we stir up a rising of the

people from the rear? What do you think? Let our Warhorse neigh,

let the Bear roar in Zmudz!108 Ah, if only a thousand men, if but

five hundred should press from behind upon the Muscovites, and

spread abroad the rising like fire; if we, seizing cannon and

standards from the Muscovites, should go as conquerors to greet

the deliverers of our kinsmen? We advance! Napoleon, seeing our

lances, asks, 'What army is that?' We shout, 'The insurgents,

Most August Emperor; the volunteers of Lithuania!' He asks, 'Who

is their commander?'-'Judge Soplica!' Ah, who then would dare to

breathe a word of Targowica?