This painting by Kharkiv based Artist Anna Staryshek forms a calligraphic rendering of a poem by one of Ukraine's foremost poets Taras Shevchenko, who wrote under exile in Siberia:

'Laugh, then, ferocious foe,
But not too loudly, for our fame
Will never be laid low.
It will not perish, but proclaim
The annals of our age,
What is our justice, what our wrong,
And what our parentage.
Our epic and our ancient song
For ever shall remain,
And that is where our glory lies,
The glory of Ukraine.'
Taras Shevchenko published 1840