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The word "yasa" came to the author's memory as a military phenomenon from our Cossack history. In Borys Grinchenko's dictionary, this rare and precious word has a mysterious, solemn, musical depth. "Yasa" - we read in the dictionary - means publicity, noise. "Oh, Khmel," he says, "Khmelik! Make yassa among the lords of the great coward." And then: "Salute, salute to the firing." "Twelve cannons were fired, and yassa was served." And then: "We pay the guests knightly yassa - we shoot". Dmytro Pavlychko believes in our European future and presents his readers with "Yasa" as a greeting to the knights of Ukraine.