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First Line: Kazan looks down from the volga wall
Last Line: Sound from her towers together.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Kazan, Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


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.





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