"Shche ne vmerla Ukraina" (Ukrainian: Ще не вмерла Українa, or "Ukraine's [glory] has not yet perished") is the national anthem of Ukraine. The lyrics constitute a slightly modified original first stanza of the patriotic poem written in 1862 by Pavlo Chubynsky, a prominent ethnographer from the region of Ukraine's capital, Kiev. In 1863, Mykhailo Verbytsky, a western Ukrainian composer and a Greek-Catholic priest composed music to accompany Chubynsky's text. The first choral performance of the piece was at the Ukraine Theatre in Lviv, in 1864. The song was first the national anthem of the Ukrainian People's Republic, Carpatho-Ukraine and later the independent post-Soviet Ukraine. Ukrainian Lyrics: Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля, Ще нам, браття Українців, усміхнеться доля. Згинуть наші воріженьки, як роса на сонці. Запануєм і ми, браття, у своїй сторонці. ПРИСПІВ x2 Душу й тіло ми положим за нашу свободу, І покажем, що ми, браття, козацького роду. English translation: Ukraine's glory has not yet perished, nor has her freedom Upon us, Ukrainian brothers, fate shall smile once more. Our enemies will vanish, like dew in the morning sun, And we too shall rule, brothers, in our own land. CHORUS x2 We'll lay down our souls and bodies for our freedom, And we'll show that we, brothers, are of the Cossack nation.

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