The Yellow Book/Volume 4/Of One in Russia

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The Yellow Book, Volume 4
edited by Henry Harland

Of One in Russia by Richard Garnett

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1937110The Yellow Book, Volume 4 — Of One in RussiaHenry HarlandRichard Garnett

Of One in Russia

By Richard Garnett, LL.D.

Dove that of old fraught with the olive-sprayToldest of earth arisen from the flood,And how the grove in ancient station stood,And badest man take courage and be gay;

Vain for new leaf this January day To search the savage waste of Scythian wood;Yet thither wend, of Clara's ill or good Bringing back tidings on thy westering way.

Tell her the flame the brand should blithely flingDies on the hearth in ashes chill and drear,And season vainly lengthens unto SpringSince she forsook the love that held her here,Sorrow and dread and many a joyless thingLeaving in place of her that was so dear.

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