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<blockquote class="templatequote language"><p>Maciej was warming himself in the sun after finishing his prayers, and was already setting about his household work. He brought out grass and leaves; he sat down in front of his house and whistled: at this whistle a multitude of rabbits bobbed up from beneath the ground. Like narcissuses suddenly blooming above the grass, their long ears shine white; beneath them their bright eyes glitter like bloody rubies thickly sown in the velvet of the greensward. Now the rabbits sit up, and each listens and gazes around; finally the whole white, furry herd run to the old man, allured by leaves of cabbage; they jump to his feet, on his knees, on his shoulders: himself white as a rabbit, he loves to gather them around him and stroke their warm fur with his hand; but with his other hand he throws millet on the grass for the sparrows, and the noisy rabble drop from the roofs.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Mickiewicz" class="extiw" title="w:Adam Mickiewicz">Adam Mickiewicz</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Tadeusz" class="extiw" title="w:Pan Tadeusz">Pan Tadeusz, or The Last Foray in Lithuania: a story of life among Polish gentlefolk in the years 1811 and 1812 in twelve books</a></i>, translated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rapall_Noyes_(Slavic_scholar)" class="extiw" title="w:George Rapall Noyes (Slavic scholar)">George Rapall Noyes</a>, London &amp; Toronto, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Dent" class="extiw" title="w:J. M. Dent">J. M. Dent &amp; Sons</a>, 1917, Book VI, pp. 173–174.</div>
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<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Antoni_Kozakiewicz" class="extiw" title="w:en:Antoni Kozakiewicz"><span title="Polish painter (1841-1929)">Antoni Kozakiewicz</span></a>
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1879<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1879-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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