Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79.
To Moscow
By Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923)A
The brown, fir-darkened plain
That rolls to east and rolls to west,
Broad as the billowy main,
When lo! a sudden splendor
Came shimmering through the air,
As if the clouds should melt and leave
The heights of heaven bare,—
A maze of rainbow domes and spires
Full glorious on the sky,
With wafted chimes from many a tower
As the south-wind went by,
And a thousand crosses lightly hung
That shone like morning stars,—
’T was the Kremlin wall! ’t was Moscow,—
The jewel of the Czars!