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The edition contains philosophical poems by Ivan Franko that belong to the classics of world literature. In the poem "Moses" the author transferred the events of the Old Testament history to the Ukrainian soil, reflecting on the future of his people, who are thirsty for freedom. Franko put his heart into Moses, and it is not without reason that Yurii Shevelev later called this work "the second 'Testament' after Shevchenko's."

The poem of the same name is centred on the monastic cave life of Ivan Vyshensky, a Ukrainian polemicist of the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, whom Franko considered the voice of conscience of the society of his time and valued as a writer and moralist.

The poems are supplemented with information about the history of their writing and comments by Bohdan Tycholoz.