The Tale of the Armament of Igor · 1915
Part III · II.
Translated by Leonard A. Magnus (1915)
(1) Igor speaks with the river Donets.
Donets [the river] said: — "Prince Igor, not mean is thy greatness, nor Koncak's hatred, nor the joy of the Russian land!
Igor said: — "Oh Donets! Not mean is thy greatness, thou who swayest the Prince on thy waves, and hast spread out for him [a bed of] green grass by thy silvery banks, clothing him with warm mists beneath the shade of the green tree; thou hast guarded him with a duck on the water, with gulls on the billows, with mallards on the winds.
(2) Recollection of Rostislav Vsevolodic.
"Was it not thus," he said, "that the river Stugna, having an evil stream, swallowing strange brooks ground down the barges on the bushes?
The Dnepr closed his dark banks to the youth Prince Rostislav. Rostislav's mother wails for the youth Prince Rostislav."
The flowers drooped for sorrow and the tree for grief bowed low to earth.
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Anonymous (The Lay of Igor's Campaign). The Tale of the Armament of Igor, Part III · II. Translated by Leonard A. Magnus. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/lay-of-igor-magnus/24/.