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The own, original, poetic definition of the province expressed by Kazimierz Wierzyński in the poem Dworzec (Station) from the volume Wróble na dachu (Sparrows on the Roof 1921). A station – window on the world, the source of melancholy for people from a provincial town. The image of ‘maidens who yearn from the empty platform, / from where the soul of the province and spleen blows’, for whom the direct...