LAMENT FOR MOROZENKO
(This Cossack song of the seventeenth century is sung to a mournful air which makes a splendid funeral march. Morozenko was an Ukrainian Governor of a province killed in war with the Tartars.)
Trenches along the foot of the mountain—
They took Morozenko on Sunday morning.
The Tartars nor slashed him, nor pierced him with spears;
They tore out the heart from the white, white breast,
And they led him to Savour-Mohyla’s height:
“Look thou, O son of the foe, down there!
Look on thine Ukraine stretching far!”
They set him down on the yellow sands,