They comfort the sad, but still Sadness enshrouds.

Before the hromada[[58]] the Cossack bows low:

“Farewell, friends and foes, and all whom I know.

Farewell! If perchance I have quarrelled with some

(Or if with my friends has a variance come),

I have ended all strife and all quarrelling sore,

Because I return, O hromada, no more!”

NIGHT ON THE ROAD

Dark the road and lonely,

A Cossack comes a-riding—