The Tale of the Armament of Igor · 1915
Part I · X. The Second Day's Battle
Translated by Leonard A. Magnus (1915)
Gzak races like a grey wolf, Koncak rides after him towards the mighty Don.
On the second day, very early, blood-stained dawn-lights announce the day; black clouds approach from the sea, and are eager to bedim the four Suns, and in them there quiver blue lightning-flashes. There shall ensue a fearful thunder; it shall rain arrows from the mighty Don.
And there shall spears be shattered, and swords shall be blunted on the Polovetski helms, by the river Kayala, near the mighty Don.
Oh land of Russia, thou art now on the frontier-hill.
Now the winds, the scions of Stribog, blow from the sea like arrows on to the courageous hosts of Igor. The Earth moans, the streams flow sullied, [clouds of] dust cover the fields, the banners murmur.
The Polovtsy advance from the Don and the sea and from all sides. The Russian regiments retired.
The children of Baal barred the fields with their yells; but the brave Russians barred them with their crimson shields.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Anonymous (The Lay of Igor's Campaign). The Tale of the Armament of Igor, Part I · X. The Second Day's Battle. Translated by Leonard A. Magnus. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/lay-of-igor-magnus/9/.
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Anonymous (The Lay of Igor's Campaign). The Tale of the Armament of Igor, Part I · X. The Second Day's Battle. Translated by Leonard A. Magnus. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/lay-of-igor-magnus/9/.