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...the gems of the altar blaze. Hail to the day when the Eagles And the Cross shall gain their own, As the Patriarch welcomes our Lord the Czar To the Caesars' ancient throne ! Edna Dean Proctor. BELISARIUS. I AM poor and old and blind ; The sun burns me, and the wind Blows...

...glorious morning, When the cross again shall shine On the summit of St. Sophia, O city of Constantine ! In the sky of the South, at midnight, We have seen God's flaming sign, And we know he will drive the Moslem horde As chaff from his sacred shrine. Silent will...

...Constant i uc ! And that day of sack and slaughter When the wild, despairing cries Of " Kyrie Eleison ! " fainter Went wailing up to the skies, Shall be lost...our Lord, the Czar, To the Caesars' ancient throne ! Shame to the laggard Latins ! Shame to the grovelling Greeks ! The crescent above Sophia's dome Their...

...Constantino! And that day of sack and slaughter When the wild, despairing cries Of "Kyrie Eleison!" fainter Went wailing up to the skies, Shall be lost...our Lord, the Czar, To the Caesars' ancient throne I» In the sky of the south, at midnight, We have seen God's flaming sign, And we know He will drive...