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The White Czar
The White Czar is Peter the Great. Batyushka, Father dear, and Gosudar, Sovereign, are titles the Russian people are fond of giving to the Czar in their popular songs. Dost thou see on the rampart’s heightThat wreath of mist, in the lightOf the midnight moon? O, hist!It is not a wreath of mist;It is the Czar, the White Czar, Batyushka! Gosudar! He has heard, among the dead,The artillery roll o’erhead;The drums and the tramp of feetOf his soldiery in the street;He is awake! the White Czar, Batyushka! Gosudar! He has heard in the grave the criesOf his people: “Awake! arise!”He has rent the gold brocadeWhereof his shroud was made;He is risen! the White Czar, Batyushka! Gosudar! From the Volga and the DonHe has led his armies on,Over river and morass,Over desert and mountain pass;The Czar, the Orthodox Czar, Batyushka! Gosudar! He looks from the mountain-chainToward the seas, that cleave in twainThe continents; his handPoints southward o’er the landOf Roumili! O Czar, Batyushka! Gosudar! And the words break from his lips:“I am the builder of ships,And my ships shall sail these seasTo the Pillars of Hercules!I say it; the White Czar, Batyushka! Gosudar! “The Bosphorus shall be free;It shall make room for me;And the gates of its water-streetsBe unbarred before my fleets.I say it; the White Czar, Batyushka! Gosudar! “And the Christian shall no moreBe crushed, as heretofore,Beneath thine iron rule,O Sultan of Istamboul!I swear it; I the Czar, Batyushka! Gosudar!”