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{{HPB-CW-comment|[In H.P.B.’s ''Scrapbook'', Vol. IV, pp. 67-68 (old numbering Vol. II, pp. 49-50) may be found a cutting from ''The Illustrated Weekly'', Saturday, June 2, 1877, an American journal published in New York in 1875-77. The cutting contains a rather celebrated poem of Ivan Sergueyevich Turguenyev entitled “Croquet at Windsor,” translated by H.P.B. into English, at the special request of her aunt, Nadyezhda A. de Fadeyev, as appears from one of her letters to H.P.B. now in the Adyar Archives. This poem, in its original Russian, acquired a wide notoriety during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.]}} | {{HPB-CW-comment|[In H.P.B.’s {{SB-page|v=4|pp=67-68|text=''Scrapbook'', Vol. IV, pp. 67-68}} (old numbering Vol. II, pp. 49-50) may be found a cutting from ''The Illustrated Weekly'', Saturday, June 2, 1877, an American journal published in New York in 1875-77. The cutting contains a rather celebrated poem of Ivan Sergueyevich Turguenyev entitled “Croquet at Windsor,” translated by H.P.B. into English, at the special request of her aunt, Nadyezhda A. de Fadeyev, as appears from one of her letters to H.P.B. now in the Adyar Archives. This poem, in its original Russian, acquired a wide notoriety during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.]}} | ||
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No, no, haughty Queen, though that stain is still wet, | No, no, haughty Queen, though that stain is still wet, | ||
’Tis of innocent blood, and will fade never more! | ’Tis of innocent blood, and will fade never more! | ||
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{{Style P-No indent|New York, May 25, 1877.}}}} | {{Style P-No indent|New York, May 25, 1877.}}}} | ||