"Oy Dnipre miy, Dnipre, shyrokyi ta duzyi!
Bahato ty, bat'ku, u more nosyv
Kozac'koyi krovi; shche ponesesh, druze!
Chervonyv ty synye, ta ne napoyiv;
A syu nich up’yeshsya. Pekelneye svyato
Po vsiy Ukrayini syu nich zareve;
Poteche bahato, bahato, bahato
Shlyachets'koyi krovi. Kozak ozyve;
Ozyvut' het'many v zolotim zupani;
Prokynet'sya dolya; kozak zaspiva:
"Ni zyda, ni lyacha", a v stepach Ukrayny –
O boze miy mylyi – blysne bulava!"
...
Zadzvonyly v usi dzvony
Po vsiy Ukrayini;
Zakrychaly haydamaky:
"Hyne shlyachta, hyne!
Hyne shlyachta! pohulyayem
Ta chmaru nahriyem!"
Zaynyalasya Smilyanshchyna,
Chmara chervoniye.
A naypersha Medvedivka
Nebo nahrivaye.
Horyt' Smila, Smilyanshchyna
Krov’yu pidplyvaye.
Horyt' Korsun, horyt' Kaniv,
Chyhyryn, Cherkasy;
Chornym shlyachom zapalalo,
I krov polylasya
Az u Volyn. Po Polissi
Honta benketuye,
A Zaliznyak v Smilyanshchyni
Domachu hartuye,
...
Ziyshlo sonce; Ukrayina
De palala, tlila,
A de shlyachta, zapertysya,
U budynkach mlila.
Skriz' po selach shybenyci;
Navishano trupu –
Tilko starshych, a tak shlyachta
Kupoyu na kupi.
Na ulycyach, na rozputtyach
Sobaky, vorony
Hryzut' shlyachtu, klyuyut' ochi;
Nichto ne boronyt'.