Your nation is gone. Conquered and vanquished. Hope is lost. But something arises

in place of political independence. You experience the realization of your dream-  the rise of what is the essence of your culture. It is

good culture that arises against this kind of adversity, and now we know what we used to know only in our instinct, that it isn't base individuality

that is supreme with meaning, but that which we hold together, that which binds us in deepest form, and from which hope springs eternal. Or, its just a piano piece.