<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118668" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Alexander III</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world in mourning for a Russian Tsar!<br>A despot of the nineteenth century<br>Mourned by the nations that have made men free!<br>Ye captives of his rule! where'er ye be,<br>Whether in dungeons or in mines afar—<br>Wretches who mourn, yet mourn not for the Tsar,—<br>Forgive the tears that seem a wrong to grief<br>Barren of comfort and without relief!—<br>The Tsar was Russia's martyr,—as ye are!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He asked for peace, and she ordained him strife.<br>A Slav of simple heart, disliking show,<br>She bade him every lowly hope forego;<br>And placing on his brow her crown of woe,<br>Gave him a sovereignty with perils rife,<br>And 'neath his sceptre hid the assassin's knife.<br>So, masked as Fear, she broke his nerves of steel<br>Upon the circle of her racking wheel,<br>And set a horror at his door of life!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Humanity but sorrows for her own;<br>The Autocrat she mourns not, but the man,<br>Who, loving Russia, lived beneath her ban,<br>Powerless to soften fate or change the plan<br>That called him all unwilling to a throne,<br>Hereditary evils to atone.<br>She mourns not Cæsar, but the pathos old<br>Of a quick conscience, driven to uphold<br>A dynasty the world had long outgrown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Woe to the Tsar!—Livadia's cannon boom,<br>Proclaiming that the Tsar from woe is free!<br>Peace to the Tsar! but, Russia, woe to thee!<br>Still he who rules thee shall thy victim be,<br>Tortured by griefs that shall his heart consume,<br>Till he and thou, risen as from the tomb,<br>Shall see the light on Liberty's calm face,<br>Shall know that tyranny must yield its place<br>To the great spirit that hath breathed its doom!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118668" data-title="Alexander III de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="The world in mourning for a Russian Tsar!/A despot of the nineteenth century/Mourned by the nations that have made men free!/Ye captives of his rule! where'er ye be,/Whether in dungeons or in mines afar—/Wretches who mourn, yet mourn not for the..."></div> </div> </div>

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