Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79. | | | | Troitzka | | Troitsa Monastery | | Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) |
| | | O SACRED Troitsa! when the skies | |
| Of morn are blue I lift my eyes | |
| To see again in azure air | |
| Thy starry domes and turrets fair, | |
| And to hear from thy gray cathedral walls | 5 |
| The chanted hymn as it swells and falls. | |
| Then with the pilgrim train I wait | |
| And enter, glad, thy wide-flung gate, | |
| To drink of St. Sergius’ holy well, | |
| That heals the griefs no soul may tell, | 10 |
| Or kneel with them at his wondrous shrine,— | |
| His staff and his simple robe beside,— | |
| And trace on my breast the mystic sign, | |
| And pray for the peace of the glorified! | |
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| Then fade thy towers; the music dies; | 15 |
| Above me are my native skies, | |
| Blue and clear in the August morn, | |
| Over the pines and the rustling corn, | |
| With a song from brook and breeze and bird | |
| Sweet as the hymn in thy cloisters heard,— | 20 |
| And I know the fields are a shrine as fair, | |
| For the Lord of the saints is here as there! | | | | |
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