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The Vistula is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at 1,047 kilometres in length. Its drainage basin, extending into three other countries apart from Poland, covers 193,960 km², of which 168,868 km² is in Poland. The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in the south of Poland, 1,220 meters above sea level in the Silesian Beskids, where it begins with the White Little Vistula and the Black Little Vistula. It flows through Poland's largest cities, including Kraków, Sandomierz, Warsaw, Płock, Włocławek, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Świecie, Grudziądz, Tczew and Gdańsk. It empties into the Vistula Lagoon or directly into the Gdańsk Bay of the Baltic Sea with a delta of six main branches. The river has many associations with Polish culture, history and national identity. It is Poland's most important waterway and natural symbol, flowing through its two main cities, and the phrase "Land on the Vistula" can be synonymous with Poland.

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John a'Beckett - Vistula

John a'Beckett - Vistula

A cascade of ices, cold fury <br />gargling down the Beskids <br />waiting basket of Baltic, <br />great span of your lakes <br />infinite stretch of Mazury- <br />you, marshal land-giver- <br />to our lives along banks <br />into houses and history- <br />what do you make of us, <br />God of this river? <br /> <br />Those who would plumb <br />the crevice dry cracks <br />fetch in your mystery, <br />the deep green in you, <br />River whose currents still <br />shape us with influence, <br />run blood in our vein-sinew <br />wild into your wilderness, <br />What do you build in us <br />God of this river? <br /> <br />As we cross the ice packs <br />winter’s water hidden us <br />floods and droughts sung <br />to your rhythm- fit eyes <br />flicked at the universe, <br />town’s heart pumps a pulse <br />just a mere quiver, under <br />thick ice for so long, what <br />have you forbidden us. <br />God of this river? <br /> <br />For us the smart facts, snatch <br />a glimpse of you from high <br />bridges across in the rush <br />cars trams train and bus <br />fast metros under you <br />to nest in sky-scrapers <br />shrinking you down to <br />a summer’s small slither <br />our lives blunder through <br />your slow current’s residue <br />What thinking, wonder you <br />pagan God of this River?<br /><br />John a'Beckett<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/vistula/

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The Vistula is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at 1,047 kilometres in length. Its drainage basin, extending into three other countries apart from Poland, covers 193,960 km², of which 168,868 km² is in Poland. The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in the south of Poland, 1,220 meters above sea level in the Silesian Beskids, where it begins with the White Little Vistula and the Black Little Vistula. It flows through Poland's largest cities, including Kraków, Sandomierz, Warsaw, Płock, Włocławek, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Świecie, Grudziądz, Tczew and Gdańsk. It empties into the Vistula Lagoon or directly into the Gdańsk Bay of the Baltic Sea with a delta of six main branches. The river has many associations with Polish culture, history and national identity. It is Poland's most important waterway and natural symbol, flowing through its two main cities, and the phrase "Land on the Vistula" can be synonymous with Poland.

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