Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | Turkey in Europe, and the Principalities
Montenegro | | Montenegro | | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| | | THEY rose to where their sovran eagle sails, | |
| They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, | |
| Chaste, frugal, savage, armed by day and night | |
| Against the Turk; whose inroad nowhere scales | |
| Their headlong passes, but his footstep fails, | 5 |
| And red with blood the Crescent reels from fight | |
| Before their dauntless hundreds, in prone flight | |
| By thousands down the crags and through the vales. | |
| O smallest among peoples! rough rock-throne | |
| Of freedom! warriors beating back the swarm | 10 |
| Of Turkish Islam for five hundred years, | |
| Great Tsernogora! never since thine own | |
| Black ridges drew the cloud and brake the storm | |
| Has breathed a race of mightier mountaineers. | | | | |
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