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First Line: Over the dead is a syrian sky
Last Line: "and sighs above them, ""alas for glory!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Variant Title(s): The English Cemetery At Sevastopol
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Crimean War (1853-1856); Russia; Sevastopol, Ukraine; Graveyards; Soviet Union; Russians


OVER the Dead is a Syrian sky,
And a light wind blows from the Vale of Baidar;
But what care they as they mutely lie, --
Column and captain, steed and rider?

Tulips and poppies can never bloom
Dear to their slumber as English daisies;
Nor the nightingale's warble in bowery gloom
Atone for the skylark's rapturous mazes.

Ghostly cities and nameless graves; --
This is the sum of the battle's story!
And the wind of Baidar the brown grass waves,
And sighs above them, "Alas for Glory!"





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