“A Note on the Land (Zapis o zemlji)”:

Once a worthy questioner asked someone:Who is that? What is that?Wherever is that?From whence comes that? Which way is that? That Bosnia Tell me.

And at once the one asked gave an answer:Bosnia is a landBoth fasting and barefootAnd hungry and cold And suffers fromA lack Of Sleep. . .”1

Mak DizdarZAPIS O ZEMLJI

Pitao jednom tako jednoga vrli pitac neki:A tko je ta, sta je ta da prostisGdje je taOdakle jeKuda jeTaBosnaRekti.

A zapitan, odgovor njemu tad hitan dade: Bosna, da prostiš, jedna zemlja imadeI posna i bosa da prostiš I hladna i glada I k tomu još Da prostiš Prkosna

1 ? Dizdar, Mak (1955). Kameni Spavač, Sarajevo: Veselin Maleša, pages 108-9.