Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79.

Kazan

Kazan

By Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923)

KAZAN looks down from the Volga wall,

Bright in the darkest weather;

And the Christian chime and the Moslem call

Sound from her towers together.

Shrine of the Golden Horde was she;

Boast of the proud Bokhara;

And her fame was wafted over the sea,

And sung in the far Sahara.

Woe to her faith and her turbaned lord!

The Cross and the Russ were stronger;

Her splendors now are the Czar’s reward,

And her Khans are kings no longer!

Yet still she looks from the Volga wall,

Bright in the darkest weather;

And the Christian chime and the Moslem call

Sound from her towers together.