When the sun shines, it dries up the dew.
P.
Servian songs begin also frequently with a series of questions, the answers to which form mostly a very happy introduction to the tale. For instance:
What's so white upon yon verdant forest?
Is it snow, or is it swans assembled?
Were it snow, it surely had been melted;
Were it swans, long since they had departed.
Lo! it is not swans, it is not snow, there,
'T is the tents of Aga, Hassan Aga, etc.