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=== Blaník ===
[[File:Cerny-Jirasek.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Army of knights led by St. Wenceslas: [[Věnceslav Černý]]]]
Blaník was finished on 9 March 1879 and premiered on 4 January 1880. It is named for the mountain [[Blaník]] inside which a legend says that a huge army of knights led by [[Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia|St. Wenceslaus]] sleep. The knights will awake and help the country in its gravest hour (sometimes described as four hostile armies attacking from all [[cardinal direction]]s).

Musically, ''Blaník'' begins exactly as ''Tábor'' ends, "hammering" out the motto which was left unresolved, but now continuing on, as if in the aftermath of the battle. Thus these last two tone poems of the cycle form a cohesive pair, as do the first two; the High Castle's theme returns as the Vltava's river journey triumphantly reaches that same destination, and again returns triumphantly at the end of ''Blaník''. Once again, the Hussite hymn used in Tábor is quoted, though this time it is the third line which rings out in the march at the end of the piece. The original lyrics to this line in the hymn are "so that finally with Him you will always be victorious", a reference to the eventual victorious rise of the Czech state.
<score sound="1"> \relative c' { \clef bass \time 3/2 \key d \major d->\fff d-> d2-> d-> | e4-> c-> c2-> r | e4->-. c->~ c b->-. b2-> | a1->\fz r2 | a4->\sfz c-> c2-> a-> | a4-> f-> f2-> } </score>

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