The yellow sands
Have sucked dry my heart.”
Oy Kolyádka! Oy Kolyádka!
—From W. R. S. Ralston’s The Songs of the Russian People.
BOWL-SONG
A grain adown the velvet strolled—Glory!
No purer pearl could be—Glory!
The pearl against a ruby rolled—Glory!
Most beautiful to see—Glory!
Big is the pearl by ruby’s side—Glory!