Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SHRINES OF MOSCOW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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First Line: Above each gate a blessed saint
Last Line: They are the stars, and she the sun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Kremlin, Moscow; Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


ABOVE each gate a blessed saint
Asks favor of the skies,
And the hosts of the foe do fail and faint
At the gleam of their watchful eyes;
And Pole and Tartar and haughty Gaul
Flee, dismayed, from the Kremlin wall.

Here lie our ancient czars, asleep, --
Ivan and Feodor, --
While loving angels round them keep
Sweet peace forevermore!
Only when Easter bells ring loud,
They sign the cross beneath the shroud.

O, Troitsa's altar is divine, --
St. Sergius! hear our prayers!
And Kieff, Olga's lofty shrine,
The name of "The Holy" bears;
But Moscow blends all rays in one, --
They are the stars, and she the sun!





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