Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79. | | | | Sevastopol | | Sevastopol | | Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) |
| | | OVER the Dead is a Syrian sky, | |
| And a light wind blows from the Vale of Baidar; | |
| But what care they as they mutely lie,— | |
| Column and captain, steed and rider? | |
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| Tulips and poppies can never bloom | 5 |
| Dear to their slumber as English daisies; | |
| Nor the nightingale’s warble in bowery gloom | |
| Atone for the skylark’s rapturous mazes. | |
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| Ghostly cities and nameless graves;— | |
| This is the sum of the battle’s story! | 10 |
| And the wind of Baidar the brown grass waves, | |
| And sighs above them, “Alas for Glory!” | | | | |
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