Excerpt from The Shade of the Balkans: Being a Collection of Bulgarian Folksongs and Proverbs, Here for the First Time Rendered Into English, Together With an Essay on the Origin of the Bulgars
To
Dr. Strossmayer
Bishop of Djakovo
Great Bishop, who didst dedicate thy day
To God and to the godliness of man,
Who wast not weary thro' the dark to scan
For the dim promise of a golden ray -
Thy soul was stricken when the Sultan's sway
These children of the mountains overran.
And from Bulgaria's soul 'twas thine to fan
What of old music in the darkness lay.
To thee we dedicate this book of grief
And gladness which informed a people's heart,
Saved from those centuries that were too brief
To cast upon them Time's victorious dart,
And from these gloomy days of unbelief
Whence all delight of music doth depart.
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