While the prancing horses neighed

That bore my Marusenka away.

“Am I no more your child?” she said,

“That from your side you send me so

Just ere the coming of the night?

Give me a friend in this my plight—

My songster Solowi[[13]] must go.

“For its sweet piping I would hear

At peep of day to waken me—

She, my new mother, will not call,