Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VULTURE, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK


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First Line: O'er sleepy fields a vulture broods
Last Line: For how long must the vulture sweep?


O'ER sleepy fields a vulture broods,
In circle upon circle sweeping,
Watching the meadow solitudes.
A mother in her hut is weeping:
"Take bread, my son, take breast, and grow;
Obey, take up thy cross, and go."

Centuries pass. Loud blares the war,
Rebellion rising, hamlets burning, --
But thou, my country, as before,
Thy age-old beauty red with mourning!
For how long must the mother weep?
For how long must the vulture sweep?





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