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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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