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BATTLE OF KOSSOVO, by                    
First Line: There resteth to servia a glory
Last Line: Who this day in battle were slain.
Subject(s): Kossovo, Battle Of


THERE resteth to Servia a glory,
A glory that shall not grow old;
There remaineth to Servia a story,
A tale to be chanted and told!
They are gone to their graves grim and gory,
The beautiful, brave, and bold;
But out of the darkness and desolation
Of the mourning heart of a widowed nation,
Their memory waketh an exultation;

Yea, long as a babe shall be born,
Or there resteth a man in the land,
So long as a blade of corn
Shall be reaped by a human hand,
So long as the grass shall grow
On the mighty plain of Kossovo, --
So long, so long, even so,
Shall the glory of those remain
Who this day in battle were slain.





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