And lo, those exiles in the snowy tabernacle,
in the absence of the Shaman, had begun to quarrel among themselves,
and had divided into three groups ;
but each of these groups thought of the deliverance of the fatherland.
Now the first had at its head Count Scirrhus,
who upheld the cause of those who array themselves in the kontusz and will be called gentry,
as if they had come anew with Lach into a desert country.
And the second had at its head a gaunt soldier, Skartabella by name,
who wished to divide the land and proclaim the freedom of the peasants,
and the equality of the gentry with the Jews and gipsies.
And a third had at its head Father Bonifat,
who desired to save the country by prayer,
and for the deliverance of the country offered but one means,
to go and perish, not defending one’s self-like martyrs.
These three groups then began to be discordant in spirit with one another,
and they began to quarrel over their principles.
And lo, that second group, arming them
(Juliusz Slowacki)
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