Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79.
The Shrines of Moscow
By Edna Dean Proctor (18291923)A
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.
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.
St. Sergius! hear our prayers!
And Kiëff, 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!