Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse/By the Vardar
1. BY THE VARDAR.
Brown, never-ageing crags are proudly to heaven uplifted;
Over the bouldered depths, with clouds the eagles are warring.
Downward with terrible burst into foam the Vardar is sifted,
Into the blue Aegean through narrowest crevices pouring.
O waves, O Serbian river! So centuries forfeit their traces,
Even as billows are plunged far down in eternity's channels.
Yet do thy pearly droplets caress the rock-ridden places
Where are upreared the remains of thy nation's glorious annals.
Yet, as the heavenly Phoenix, shall gladsome liberty glimmer;
Blithely shall I abide where mournful is now my abiding.
Yea, and upon the girth of ifs wings, our eagle, a-shimmer,
Over thy boulders be gliding.
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929. The longest-living author of this work died in 1970, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 53 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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