Springtime! And now what is it she brings us?
She brought us Strength, beauty of boys.
Beauty of boys is as dew in summer
Washed in a rain-pond, dried on a fence,
Set on a table, wrapped in rags.
WEDDING SONG CYCLE
THE WEDDING OF MARUSENKA
(From various districts. A selection of folk-songs made into a song cycle, some being fragmentary)
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WOROTA—THE GATES
Marusenka with her father pleadeth: