Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79. | | | | Bessarabia | | Bessarabia | | Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) |
| | | HERE the white cattle graze that feed | |
| The Austrian Kaiser’s towns, | |
| Close-watched by dogs alert to leap | |
| If but the herder frowns; | |
| And here the shepherd tends his flock | 5 |
| While the long days go by,— | |
| Now couched beside them in the plain, | |
| Now on the khourgans high. | |
| The plover calls across the steppe; | |
| The stork, with snowy breast, | 10 |
| Flies northward to the kindly roof | |
| That holds her summer nest; | |
| But nothing stirs his drowsy blood | |
| Unless a lamb should stray, | |
| Then woe to wolf or gypsy thief | 15 |
| That lurks beside the way. | | | | |
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