Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The people, the russian people
Last Line: Lost in the dawn at last!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Patriotism; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


THE people, the Russian people,
God grant their night is past,
And the gloom of their weary waiting
Lost in the dawn at last!
From the Baltic to the Okhotsk Sea
The stars have heard their wail,
And the steppe-winds borne their prayers to heaven
That Right may yet prevail.

The people, the patient people,
They are the strength, the power, —
Their hearts are true to the Russian Land
Though darkest clouds may lower.
It was Yermak, the valiant Cossack,
Who broad Siberia won;
Through Minin, peasant of Nijni,
Were the tyrant-Poles undone;

And Archangel's Lomonósoff,
Child of the common throng,
A fisher-lad, was first to shape
The sounding Russ in song.

The people, the trusting people,
God grant their night is past,
And the gloom of their weary waiting
Lost in the dawn at last!





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