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... | {{Style P-Poem|poem={{Style S-Small capitals|Unarmed}} and unattended walks the Czar, | ||
Through Moscow’s busy street one winter’s day. | |||
The crowd uncover as his face they see,— | |||
“God greet the Czar!” they say. | |||
Along his path there moved a funeral, | |||
Grey spectacle of poverty and woe. | |||
A wretched sledge, dragged by one weary man, | |||
Slowly across the snow. | |||
And on the sledge, blown by the winter wind, | |||
Lay a poor coffin, very rude and bare. | |||
And he who drew it bent before his load, | |||
With dull and sullen air. | |||
The Emperor stopped and beckoned to the man; | |||
“Who is’t thou bearest to the grave?” he said. | |||
“Only a soldier, Sire!” the short reply. | |||
“Only a soldier, dead.” | |||
“Only a soldier!” musing, said the Czar; | |||
“Only a Russian, who was poor and brave. | |||
Move on. I follow. Such an one goes not | |||
Unhonoured to his grave.” | |||
He bent his head, and silent raised his cap; | |||
The Czar of all the Russias, pacing slow, | |||
Following the coffin, as again it went, | |||
Slowly across the snow. | |||
The passers in the street, all wondering, | |||
Looked on that sight, then followed silently: | |||
Peasant and Prince, and artisan and clerk, | |||
All in one company. | |||
Still, as they went, the crowd grew ever more, | |||
Till thousands stood around the friendless grave, | |||
Led by that princely heart, who, royal, true, | |||
Honoured the poor and brave.}} | |||
{{Style P-Align right|{{Style S-Small capitals|Agnes Macdonell}}, in''The Spectator''.}} | |||
{{Style P-No indent|March 2nd, 1880.}} | |||
{{Style S-Small capitals|Note}}.—This incident is narrated by a lady who was living in | |||
Moscow when it took place. | |||
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