So lonesome Mother won’t weep for me:

‘There are her flowers—but where is she!’”

IX
PUTTING ON THE PEREMITKA

(The enveloping hood or white scarf, the mark of the wife)

The white Pava[[11]] is flying—

See all the waiting ring there,

The maids who laugh and sing there—

But all the girls it passes,

Passes by them all

To fall