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washed by the cold rain and whose eyes are picked out
by the birds of prey; the lamentation of the Cossack
girl when the signal for the departure is given, and her
lover rides away; her ardent regret for him when he is
absent on a military expedition in a foreign land; the
lamentation of the old Cossack over the young men who
have disappeared; the young Cossack’s self-reliance and
confidence in victory; the sorrow of the lovers at the
gossip about them, and the ignominy which they who
would separate them heap upon the loved girl, — all this
in short lyrical poems different from the more narrative
form of the Cossack duma, which is fond of describing a
definite historical person or exploit.[1]
The Great-Russian ballads are of several kinds: partly
being the more stereotyped wedding and Christmas
verses; partly the so-called ballads of men of adventure,
that is, of highwaymen, — the semi-pathetic, semi-humorous,
always humble ballads of those who are under
sentence of death, which open the perspective to the
gallows, and to that extent have a certain resemblance
to several poems of François Villon; and partly (the
great bulk) of genuine popular ballads, nearly all of
which are about the longing and sorrows of lovers.[2]
The Little-Russian and Great-Russian popular ballads
agree in two principal features: in the comparison
between a display of nature and a mental condition, which
is continually evoked by companionship with nature and
a poetic view thereof, and in the richness of expression
for the most varied moods and shades of a love upon
whose multifarious sorrows they dwell with ineffable
sadness.
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