Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BESSARABIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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BESSARABIA, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the white cattle graze that feed
Last Line: That lurks beside the way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Variant Title(s): The Plains Of Bessarabia
Subject(s): Bessarabia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


HERE the white cattle graze that feed
The Austrian Kaiser's towns,
Close-watched by dogs alert to leap
If but the herder frowns;
And here the shepherd tends his flock
While the long days go by, --
Now couched beside them in the plain,
Now on the khourgans high.
The plover calls across the steppe;
The stork, with snowy breast,
Flies northward to the kindly roof
That holds her summer nest;
But nothing stirs his drowsy blood
Unless a lamb should stray,
Then woe to wolf or gypsy thief
That lurks beside the way.





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