For those who strove to free the serf
We lift the prayer on high;
For those who bore the battle’s brunt
And lived to win the day,
For those who’ve heard the serf’s last song,
To Thee, O God, we pray.”
THE PROPHET.
Ah! tell me not he prudence quite forgot;
That he himself for his own fate’s to blame.
Clearer than we, he saw that man cannot