Part 8

Nightingale sings sweetly In the verdant forest: In the verdant forest, On the slender branches.

Thither came three sportsmen, Nightingale to shoot at. She implored the sportsmen, "Shoot me not, ye sportsmen!

"Shoot me not, ye sportsmen! I will give you music, In the verdant garden, On the crimson rose-tree."

But the sportsmen seize her; They deceive the songster, In a cage confine her, Give her to their loved one.

Nightingale will sing not-- Hangs its head in silence: Then the sportsmen bear her To the verdant forests.

Soon her song is waken'd; Woe! woe! woe betide us, Friend from friend divided, Bird from forest banish'd!

BROTHERLESS SISTERS.

Two solitary sisters, who A brother's fondness never knew, Agreed, poor girls, with one another, That they would make themselves a brother: They cut them silk, as snow-drops white; And silk, as richest rubies bright; They carved his body from a bough Of box-tree from the mountain's brow;

Two jewels dark for eyes they gave; For eyebrows, from the ocean's wave They took two leeches; and for teeth Fix'd pearls above, and pearls beneath; For food they gave him honey sweet, And said, "Now live, and speak, and eat."

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PHOTOS

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: This lecture was delivered in December, 1915.]

[Footnote 2: The Archbishop of Canterbury, _The Character and Call of the Church of England_, p. 118.]

[Footnote 3: Stanley Lane-Poole, Turkey, p. 40.]

[Footnote 4: _Daily Telegraph_, 5th February.]

[Footnote 5: Kavavlashka.]

[Footnote 6: Karabogdanska.

_The above and following poems are taken from John BOWRING: Serbian Popular Poetry_. London, 1827.]

[Footnote 7: Belgrad.]

[Footnote 8: Chekmel-Juprija.]

[Footnote 9: _Ban_, a title frequently used in Servia. Its general acceptation is governor. It may be derived from _Pan_, the old Slavonic for _Lord_.]

[Footnote 10: Gromovnik Daja.]

[Footnote 11: I napij, i u slavu Ristovn.]

[Footnote 12: _Svezdá_, star, is of the feminine gender.]

[Footnote 13: _Sun_ is feminine in Servian.]