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
Sarajevo | | The Dance | | From the Servian |
| | Translated by J. Bowring
OMER’S court is near to Sarajevo; | |
| All around it is a woody mountain: | |
| In the midst there is a verdant meadow; | |
| There the maidens dance their joyous Kolo. | |
| In the Kolo there is Damian’s loved one; | 5 |
| O’er the Kolo her fair head uprises, | |
| Rises gay and lustrous in her beauty. | |
| Midst the Kolo Nicholas addressed her: | |
| “Veil your face, thou Damian’s best beloved! | |
| For to-day death’s summons waits on Damian. | 10 |
| Half thy face veil over, lovely maiden!” | |
| Hardly the prophetic words were uttered, | |
| Ere a gun was heard from the green forest; | |
| Damian, wounded, fell amidst the Kolo,— | |
| Damian fell, and thus his love addressed him: | 15 |
| “O my Damian! O my sun of springtime! | |
| Wherefore, wherefore didst thou shine so brightly, | |
| Thus so soon to sink behind the mountain?” | |
| “My beloved! O thou rose all beauteous! | |
| Wherefore didst thou bloom so fair, so lovely, | 20 |
| And I never can enjoy, nor wear thee?” | | | | |
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