Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79. | | | | Kazan | | Kazan | | 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. | |
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| Shrine of the Golden Horde was she; | 5 |
| Boast of the proud Bokhara; | |
| And her fame was wafted over the sea, | |
| And sung in the far Sahara. | |
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| Woe to her faith and her turbaned lord! | |
| The Cross and the Russ were stronger; | 10 |
| Her splendors now are the Czar’s reward, | |
| And her Khans are kings no longer! | |
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| Yet still she looks from the Volga wall, | |
| Bright in the darkest weather; | |
| And the Christian chime and the Moslem call | 15 |
| Sound from her towers together. | | | | |
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