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
Servia | | Battle of Kossovo | | Eadie Lawton Mijatovice (1825–1908) |
| | Translated by Owen Meredith
* * * * THERE resteth to Servia a glory, | |
| A glory that shall not grow old; | |
| There remaineth to Servia a story, | |
| A tale to be chanted and told! | |
| They are gone to their graves grim and gory, | 5 |
| The beautiful, brave, and bold; | |
| But out of the darkness and desolation | |
| Of the mourning heart of a widowed nation, | |
| Their memory waketh an exultation; | |
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| Yea, long as a babe shall be born, | 10 |
| Or there resteth a man in the land, | |
| So long as a blade of corn | |
| Shall be reaped by a human hand, | |
| So long as the grass shall grow | |
| On the mighty plain of Kossovo,— | 15 |
| So long, so long, even so, | |
| Shall the glory of those remain | |
| Who this day in battle were slain. * * * * * | | | | |
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