Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79. | | | | Don, the River | | The Don | | Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) |
| | | O PLACID Don! I see thee flow | |
| With shallow, snowy-sanded stream, | |
| While light the steppe-winds o’er thee blow, | |
| And cranes and gray-winged herons dream,— | |
| Safe as beside some dark lagoon,— | 5 |
| Along thy banks in breezeless noon. | |
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| The Cossack wanders from thy shore, | |
| But never finds a wave so fair; | |
| Thy summer lapse, thy winter roar, | |
| Still greet him in remotest air; | 10 |
| And death is sweet if he may lie, | |
| With cross above, thy waters by. | | | | |
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