Alone, locks dishevelled, I trembling arise,

And I know not the drift of my dreaming.

WHO WAS HE?
A STORY OF PETER THE GREAT.

Upon the mighty Neva’s bank,

Along the winding woodland way,

A Horseman rode, in forest wilds

Of elm, of pine, of mosses grey.

Before him rose a Fisher’s hut;

Beneath a pine, by the blue stream,

An aged, bearded Fisherman