| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Song of the Drowning Cossack | | By Florence Randal Livesay, trans. |
| | From “Old Folk Songs of Ukraina”
GO, my horse, along the road, through the new gates; | |
| And my old mother will come out to meet you. | |
| But tell her not, little steed, that I was drowned— | |
| Tell her, my little horse, that I have married. | |
| Oi! my friends at the wedding are maples drooping over water, | 5 |
| My marriage-brokers are carpenters in the water, | |
| My groomsmen are of the drift-wood, | |
| My kinsmen are the pike in the river, | |
| And my bride—the still waters! | | | | |
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