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From The Bard of the Dimbovitza, Roumanian Folk-Songs Collected from the Peasants by Hélène Vacaresco, translated by Carmen Sylva and Alma Strettel; London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1897; pp. vii-


CONTENTS

Part I


[vii]



INTRODUCTION v



LUTEPLAYER’S SONGS

       The Young Heiduck 3

       The Luteplayer’s House 5

       Death For Love 8

       Song Of The Fire 10

       Hopeless 13

       Gipsy Song 15

       Song Of The Shroud 17

       The Comforters 20

       At A Grave 22

       “I Am Content.” 23

       The Heiduck’s Song 25

       If She Were Yet Alive 27

       Gipsy Song 30

       The Way To Happiness 32

       The Dead Wife’s Kiss 35

       The Soldier’s Tent 38

       Song of the Blood 40

             The Maiden’s Blood 41

             The Soldier’s Blood 42

             The Old Man’s Blood 45

       Two Souls 47

       The Well of Tears 49

       The Song of the Dagger 50


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       Fallen 52

       Song 55

       The River of Tears 56

       Laughter 58

       The Soldier 60

       The Black Heart 62

       The Draught of Tears 63

       Mourn Not 65

       The Luteplayer’s Song 67

       Faithless 70

       Hay 73

       In the Moonlight 75

       The Murderer 77

       The Dead Soldier 80

       Where the Songs Dwell 82

       He that Betrayeth Not 84

       The Other One 86

       The Outcast 87

       Barren 89

       He that Took Nothing 92

       Dirge.   On the Death of a Young Man 94

       Dirge.   On the Death of a Maiden 97

       Dirge.   On the Death of a Child 100



SPINNING SONGS 103



AUTUMN.   A DRAMA 115



NOTES 129






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