Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful is the third novel of Alan Paton, the South African author who is best known for writing "Cry, the Beloved Country". "Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful" is an anti-apartheid novel, in a similar vein to "Cry, the Beloved Country". It is a fictional reworking of Paton's own years working as a political activist and of the experience he gained working as the president of the Liberal Party of South Africa. In the foreword, Paton describes how the book contains both real and fictitious characters, but that two
O Sacred Love of the Beloved Country Stanisław August Poniatowski. The poet published it in 1774 in "Zabawy Przyjemne i Pożyteczne" (Pastimes Pleasant and Profitable). It subsequently became part of song 9 of his 1775 mock-heroic poem, ""Myszeida"" (The Mouseiad). Popular during the Enlightenment, Krasicki's patriotic poem became the anthem of the Warsaw Corps of Cadets. It has gone through many translations, including three into French. The poem is written in lines of 11 syllables, in ottava rima (rhyming ab ab ab cc). O Sacred Love of the Beloved Country "O Sacred Love of the Beloved Country" (Polish title: "Święta miłości kochanej ojczyzny"; also, "Hymn do miłości