Lost in market-place of Kiev!

“Oi, I’m off to distant lands!

To Moldavia[[51]] go I—

I’ll be slaving seven years,

Then more oxen I shall buy,

And I’ll be Tchumak again!”

RHYTHMS

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

O you thought, my mother, you would never be rid of me! There will come a day, a Sunday, when you will wish for me; you will weep long and sore—‘O where now is my daughter?’

The Daughter