Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79. | | | | Nijni-Novgorod | | The Fair of Nijni-Novgorod | | Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) |
| | | NOW, by the Tower of Babel, | |
| Was ever such a crowd? | |
| Here Turks and Jews and Gypsies, | |
| There Persians haughty-browed; | |
| With silken-robed Celestials, | 5 |
| And Frenchmen from the Seine, | |
| And Khivans and Bokhariotes,— | |
| Heirs of the Oxus plain. | |
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| Here stalk Siberian hunters; | |
| There tents a Kirghiz clan | 10 |
| By mournful-eyed Armenians | |
| From wave-girt Astrakhan; | |
| And Russ and Pole and Tartar, | |
| And mounted Cossack proud,— | |
| Now, by the Tower of Babel, | 15 |
| Was ever such a crowd? | | | | |
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