<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409766" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Siege Of Kazan. (Tartar Song, From The Prose Version Of Chodzko)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Black are the moors before Kazan, <br>And their stagnant waters smell of blood: <br>I said in my heart, with horse and man, <br>I will swim across this shallow flood. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Under the feet of Argamack, <br>Like new moons were the shoes he bare, <br>Silken trappings hung on his back, <br>In a talisman on his neck, a prayer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">My warriors, thought I, are following me; <br>But when I looked behind, alas! <br>Not one of all the band could I see, <br>All had sunk in the black morass! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where are our shallow fords? and where <br>The power of Kazan with its fourfold gates? <br>From the prison windows our maidens fair <br>Talk of us still through the iron grates. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We cannot hear them; for horse and man <br>Lie buried deep in the dark abyss! <br>Ah! the black day hath come down on Kazan! <br>Ah! was ever a grief like this?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><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=409766" data-title="The Siege Of Kazan. (Tartar Song, From The Prose Version Of Chodzko) de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="Black are the moors before Kazan, And their stagnant waters smell of blood: I said in my heart, with horse and man, I will swim across this shallow flood. Under the feet of Argamack, Like new moons were the shoes he bare, Silken trappings h..."></div> </div> </div>

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