Memory and Religion from a Postsecular

Perspective 1st Edition Zuzanna Bogumi■ Editor

Yuliya Yurchuk Editor download

https://ebookmeta.com/product/memory-and-religion-from-a-
postsecular-perspective-1st-edition-zuzanna-bogumil-editor-
yuliya-yurchuk-editor/

Download full version ebook from https://ebookmeta.com

We believe these products will be a great fit for you. Click
the link to download now, or visit ebookmeta.com
to discover even more!

Religion Aging and Health A Global Perspective Compiled

by the World Health Organization 1st Edition William M.
Clements (Editor)

https://ebookmeta.com/product/religion-aging-and-health-a-global-
perspective-compiled-by-the-world-health-organization-1st-
edition-william-m-clements-editor/

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (Volume 85) 1st

Edition Austin Sarat (Editor)

https://ebookmeta.com/product/studies-in-law-politics-and-
society-volume-85-1st-edition-austin-sarat-editor/

Disaster Risk Communication A Challenge from a Social

Psychological Perspective 1st Edition Katsuya Yamori
(Editor)

https://ebookmeta.com/product/disaster-risk-communication-a-
challenge-from-a-social-psychological-perspective-1st-edition-
katsuya-yamori-editor/

Generalist Case Management: A Method of Human Service

Delivery 5th Edition Marianne Woodside & Tricia Mcclam

https://ebookmeta.com/product/generalist-case-management-a-
method-of-human-service-delivery-5th-edition-marianne-woodside-
tricia-mcclam/
Engineering Mechanics Statics Dynamics Instructor s
Solutions Manual 14th Edition Russell C Hibbeler

https://ebookmeta.com/product/engineering-mechanics-statics-
dynamics-instructor-s-solutions-manual-14th-edition-russell-c-
hibbeler/

Medical Management of Thyroid Disease 3rd Edition David

S. Cooper

https://ebookmeta.com/product/medical-management-of-thyroid-
disease-3rd-edition-david-s-cooper/

Cyberspace in Peace and War 2nd Edition Martin Libicki

https://ebookmeta.com/product/cyberspace-in-peace-and-war-2nd-
edition-martin-libicki/

Art Lessons Katherine Koller

https://ebookmeta.com/product/art-lessons-katherine-koller/

Boss s Secret 1st Edition Sloane Peterson

https://ebookmeta.com/product/boss-s-secret-1st-edition-sloane-
peterson/
Insight Guides Great Railway Journeys of Europe Travel
Guide eBook Travel Guide eBook 2nd Edition Insight
Guides

https://ebookmeta.com/product/insight-guides-great-railway-
journeys-of-europe-travel-guide-ebook-travel-guide-ebook-2nd-
edition-insight-guides/
‘Up until this volume, no scholarly study has been dedicated to exploring the
intersection of memory and religion. To this end, Memory and Religion from a
Postsecular Perspective offers new vistas on how political and social change comes into
being by reinterpreting well known theories.’
Catherine Wanner, Pennsylvania State University, USA

‘The book asks fundamental questions about the relations and boundaries between
the sacred and profane, the religious and secular, the political uses of religious
narratives and media, and the features and contexts of memory processes within the
sphere of religion in both its institutional and vernacular, lived forms. Elaborating
such important issues needs the kind of intellectual courage and sensitivity that
enables the in-depth and refreshing analyses that we can find in this book.’
Małgorzata Zawiła, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Memory and Religion from a
Postsecular Perspective

The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings that have an
impact on other systems and spheres of social life, including cultural memory.
The editors call for a postsecular turn in memory studies, which would
provide a more reflective and meaningful approach to the constant interplay
between the religious and the secular. This opens up new perspectives on the
intersection of memory and religion and helps memory scholars become more
aware of the religious roots of the language they are using in their studies
of memory. By drawing on examples from different parts of the world, the
contributors to this volume explain how the interactions between the religious
and the secular produce new memory forms and content in the heterogenous
societies of the present-day world. These analyzed cases demonstrate that
religion has a significant impact on cultural memory, family memory and the
contemporary politics of history in secularized societies. At the same time,
politics, grassroots movements and different secular agents and processes have
so much influence on the formation of memory by religious actors that even
religious, ecclesiastic and confessional memories are affected by the secular.
This volume is ideal for students and scholars of memory studies, religious
studies and history.

Zuzanna Bogumił, PhD, works at the Institute of Archaeology and

Ethnology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her published works include
Gulag Memories: The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia’s Repressive Past
(2018) and a co-authored study titled Milieux de mémoire in Late Modernity: Local
Communities, Religion, and Historical Politics (2019).

Yuliya Yurchuk, PhD, teaches history at Umeå University, Sweden. She

specializes in memory, the history of religion and Eastern Europe. She is the
author of the book Reordering of Meaningful Worlds: Memory of the Organization
of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Post-Soviet Ukraine
(2014).
European Remembrance and Solidarity Series

The recent crisis of the European project (the Euro, migration, Brexit, the rise in national populism)
has brought about new questions about the direction of EU integration. The debate on a common
European memory and identity has been equally dramatic, and in particular since the expansion
of the EU towards the east, as pleas for proper recognition of the ‘new’ Europe within a common
European historical awareness have emerged. With a number of volumes studying social memories
in connection to art, religion, politics and other domains of social life, the series editors wish to
contribute to the debate on European memory and identity and shed fresh light on the region of
Central and Eastern Europe and Europe more broadly, a region stretched between the past and
the future in the negotiation of identities – both national and transnational. The editors encourage
comparative studies of two or more European countries, as well as those that highlight Central and
Eastern Europe in reference to other regions in Europe and beyond.
The book series is developed in cooperation with the European Network Remembrance
and Solidarity (www.enrs.eu).
Editorial Board of the book series: Marek Cichocki, Peter Haslinger, Catherine Horel,
Csaba Gy. Kiss, Dušan Kováč, Elena Mannová, Andrzej Nowak, Attila Pók, Marcela
Sălăgean, Arnold Suppan, Stefan Troebst, and Jay Winter.

Coordination: Małgorzata Pakier, Ewelina Szpak

Image, History and Memory

Central and Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective
Edited by Michał Haake and Piotr Juszkiewicz

Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective

Edited by Zuzanna Bogumił and Yuliya Yurchuk

A New Europe, 1918–1923

Instability, Innovation, Recovery
Edited by Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk and Jay Winter

For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/European-

Remembrance-and-Solidarity/book-series/REMEMBER
The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity

The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity is an international initiative

the aim of which is to research, document and enhance public knowledge of the
20th-century history of Europe and European cultures of remembrance, with
particular emphasis on periods of dictatorships, wars and resistance to political
violence. The members of the Network are Germany, Hungary, Poland,
Romania, and Slovakia, with representatives from Albania, Austria, the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia and Lithuania present in its advisory bodies.
More information: www.enrs.eu

ENRS is funded by: the German Federal Government Commissioner for

Culture and the Media, the Ministry of Human Capacities of Hungary, the
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, the
Ministry of Culture of Romania and the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak
Republic.
Memory and Religion from a
Postsecular Perspective

Edited by Zuzanna Bogumił and

Yuliya Yurchuk
First published 2022
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
and by Routledge
605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
© 2022 selection and editorial matter, Zuzanna Bogumił and Yuliya
Yurchuk; individual chapters, the contributors
The right of Zuzanna Bogumił and Yuliya Yurchuk to be identified as the
authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual
chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or
utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now
known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in
any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing
from the publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or
registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation
without intent to infringe.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A catalog record for this book has been requested
ISBN: 978-1-032-20698-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-20699-8 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-26475-0 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003264750
Typeset in Bembo
by Apex CoVantage, LLC
This publication was financed by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.
ENRS is funded by: the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and
the Media, the Ministry of Human Capacities of Hungary, the Ministry of Culture and
National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, the Ministry of Culture of Romania
and the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic.
This volume has been written in partnership with
the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.
Contents

List of figuresxiv
Notes on contributorsxvi
Acknowledgementsxxi
Forewordxxiv

1 Introduction: memory and religion from a postsecular

perspective 1
ZUZANNA BOGUMIŁ AND YULIYA YURCHUK

PART I
Memory and religion: theoretical considerations27

2 Religion and collective memory of the last century:

general reflections and Russian vicissitudes 29
ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN

3 Sacred religio-secular symbols, national myths and

collective memory 49
GENEVIÈVE ZUBRZYCKI

PART II
Postsecularity and politics of memory67

4 The Armenian genocide: extermination, memory,

sacralization 69
ADAM POMIECIŃSKI

5 Building a patrimonial Church: how the Orthodox

Churches in Ukraine use the past 89
YULIYA YURCHUK
xii Contents
6 ‘God is in truth, not in power!’ the re-militarization
of the cult of St Alexander Nevsky in contemporary
Russian cultural memory 111
LILIYA BEREZHNAYA

7 The martyrdom of Jozef Tiso: the entanglements of

the sacred and secular in post-war Catholic memories 133
AGÁTA ŠÚSTOVÁ DRELOVÁ

8 Remembering and enforced forgetting: the dynamics

of remembering Cardinal József Mindszenty in the
Cold War decades 156
RÉKA FÖLDVÁRYNÉ KISS

PART III
Post-conflict memories179

9 Evocation and the June Fourth Tiananmen candlelight

vigil: a ritual-theological hermeneutics 181
LAP YAN KUNG

10 Religious echoes of the Donbas conflict: the

discourses of the Christian, Muslim and Jewish
communities in Ukraine 200
NADIA ZASANSKA

11 Official quests, vernacular answers: the Macedonian

Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric (MOC-OA)
as a memory actor in the post-conflict Republic of
North Macedonia (2001–19) 222
NAUM TRAJANOVSKI

12 Negotiating the sacred at non-sites of memory. The

religious imaginary of post-genocidal society 243
KARINA JARZYŃSKA

PART IV
Media and postsecular memory265

13 The Crimean Tatars’ memory of deportation and Islam 267

ELMIRA MURATOVA
 Contents xiii
14 The Soviet past in contemporary Orthodox
hymnography and iconography 284
PER-ARNE BODIN

15 Whose Church is it? the nonreligious use of religious

architecture in Eastern Germany 308
AGNIESZKA HALEMBA

PART V
Transnational and vernacular memories327

16 The political use of the cult of St Tryphon of

Pechenga and its potential as a bridge-builder in the Arctic 329
ELINA KAHLA

17 ‘Vernacular’ and ‘official’ memories: looking beyond

the annual Hasidic pilgrimages to Uman 348
ALLA MARCHENKO

18 Memory as a religious mission? religion and nation in

local commemoration practices in contemporary Poland 369
MAŁGORZATA GŁOWACKA-GRAJPER

19 Critical juxtaposition in the post-war Japanese

mnemoscape: Saint Maksymilian Kolbe of Auschwitz
and the atomic bomb victims of Nagasaki 388
JIE-HYUN LIM

Afterword: from Religion as a Chain of Memory to

memory from a postsecular perspective 407
KATHY ROUSSELET

Index413
Figures

3.1 Popular postcard published circa 1891 51

3.2 Postcard circulated in 1980 53
3.3 The papal cross surrounded by smaller crosses in the summer
of 1998 55
3.4 Makeshift altars to the memory of President Kaczyński 59
3.5 As of 2018, a small group of self-proclaimed Defenders of
the Cross continued to meet in front of the Presidential
Palace every evening 61
3.6 Studded Cross, metal, by Polish street artist Peter Fuss 62
6.1 St. Alexander Nevsky Southern Russia, Trubchevsk. End of
18th century 116
12.1 Stanisław Zybała, Menorka (‘Little Menorah’) 249
12.2 Stanisław Zybała’s sculptures (untitled) 250
12.3 Stanisław Zybała’s sculpture (view from above) 251
12.4 Stanisław Zybała, Cemetery Symbol (recto) 252
12.5 Stanisław Zybała, Cemetery Symbol (verso) 253
12.6 ‘Temporary’ matzevot for burials of victims of the Holocaust
erected by the Zapomniane (‘Forgotten’) Foundation in
Chodówki forest, Poland 258
14.1 The Assembly (or Synaxis) of New Martyrs icon 292
14.2 Ilia Glazunov, The Eternal Russia 1988 293
14.3 The murder of the tsar and his family 295
14.4 Patriarch Tikhon in confinement 296
14.5 The murder of Andronik and Ermogen 297
14.6 Caricature of Patriarch Tikhon from the journal Bezbozhnik 299
14.7 The Red Army attacks a religious procession 300
14.8 The Novorussian Mother of God icon 301
14.9 The Tower of Babel 303
14.10 The consecration of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour 304
15.1 The church in Rosow with its openwork steel tower 313
15.2 Obelisk in front of the church in Rosow 315
Another Random Scribd Document
with Unrelated Content
There s no paragraph to tell.
TO P. V.
So they would raise your monument,
Old vagabond of lovely earth?
Another answer without words
To Humdrum’s, “What are poets worth?”

Not much we gave you when alive,

Whom now we lavishly deplore,—
A little bread, a little wine,
A little caporal—no more.

Here in our lodging of a day

You roistered till we were appalled;
Departing, in your room we found
A string of golden verses scrawled.

The princely manor-house of art,

A vagrant artist entertains;
And when he gets him to the road,
Behold, a princely gift remains.

Abashed, we set your name above

The purse-full patrons of our board;
Remind newcomers with a nudge,
“Verlaine took once what we afford!”

The gardens of the Luxembourg,

Spreading beneath the brilliant sun,
Shall be your haunt of leisure now
When all your wander years are done.

There you shall stand, the very mien

You wore in Paris streets of old,
And ponder what a thing is life,
Or watch the chestnut blooms unfold.

There you will find, I dare surmise,

A th t l th
Another tolerance than ours,
The loving-kindness of the grass,
The tender patience of the flowers.

And every year, when May returns

To bring the golden age again,
And hope comes back with poetry
In your loved land across the Seine,

Some youth will come with foreign speech,

Bearing his dream from over sea,
A lover of your flawless craft,
Apprenticed to your poverty.

He will be mute before you there,

And mark those lineaments which tell
What stormy unrelenting fate
Had one who served his art so well.

And there be yours, the livelong day,

Beyond the mordant reach of pain,
The little gospel of the leaves,
The Nunc dimittis of the rain!
A NORSE CHILD’S REQUIEM
Sleep soundly, little Thorlak,
Where all thy peers have lain,
A hero of no battle,
A saint without a stain!

Thy courage be upon thee,

Unblemished by regret,
For that adventure whither
Thy tiny march was set.

The sunshine be above thee,

With birds and winds and trees.
Thy way-fellows inherit
No better things than these.

And silence be about thee,

Turned back from this our war
To front alone the valley
Of night without a star.

The soul of love and valor,

Indifferent to fame,
Be with thee, heart of vikings,
Beyond the breath of blame.

Thy moiety of manhood

Unspent and fair, go down,
And, unabashed, encounter
Thy brothers of renown.

So modest in thy freehold

And tenure of the earth,
Thy needs, for all our meddling,
Are few and little worth.

Content thee, not with pity;

B l d t ith t
Be solaced, not with tears;
But when the whitethroats waken
Through the revolving years,

Hereafter be that peerless

And dirging cadence, child,
Thy threnody unsullied,
Melodious, and wild.

Then winter be thy housing,

Thy lullaby the rain,
Thou hero of no battle,
Thou saint without a stain.
IN THE HEART OF THE HILLS
In the warm blue heart of the hills
My beautiful, beautiful one
Sleeps where he laid him down
Before the journey was done.

All the long summer day

The ghosts of noon draw nigh,
And the tremulous aspens hear
The footing of winds go by.

Down to the gates of the sea,

Out of the gates of the west,
Journeys the whispering river
Before the place of his rest.

The road he loved to follow

When June came by his door,
Out through the dim blue haze
Leads, but allures no more.

The trailing shadows of clouds

Steal from the slopes and are gone;
The myriad life in the grass
Stirs, but he slumbers on;

The inland wandering tern

Skreel as they forage and fly;
His loons on the lonely reach
Utter their querulous cry;

Over the floating lilies

A dragon-fly tacks and steers;
Far in the depth of the blue
A martin settles and veers;

To every roadside thistle

A ld b b tt fl li
A gold-brown butterfly clings;
But he no more companions
All the dear vagrant things.

The strong red journeying sun,

The pale and wandering rain,
Will roam on the hills forever
And find him never again.

Then twilight falls with the touch

Of a hand that soothes and stills,
And a swamp-robin sings into light
The lone white star of the hills.

Alone in the dusk he sings,

And a burden of sorrow and wrong
Is lifted up from the earth
And carried away in his song.

Alone in the dusk he sings,

And the joy of another day
Is folded in peace and borne
On the drift of years away.

But there in the heart of the hills

My beautiful weary one
Sleeps where he laid him down;
And the large sweet night is begun.
AN AFTERWORD

To G. B. R.
Brother, the world above you
Is very fair to-day,
And all things seem to love you
The old accustomed way.

Here in the heavenly weather

In June’s white arms you sleep,
Where once on the hills together
Your haunts you used to keep.

The idling sun that lazes

Along the open field
And gossips to the daisies
Of secrets unrevealed;

The wind that stirs the grasses

A moment, and then stills
Their trouble as he passes
Up to the darkling hills,—

And to the breezy clover

Has many things to say
Of that unwearied rover
Who once went by this way;

The miles of elm-treed meadows;

The clouds that voyage on,
Streeling their noiseless shadows
From countries of the sun;

The tranquil river reaches

And the pale stars of dawn;
The thrushes in their beeches
For reverie withdrawn;

With all your forest fellows

I h th bli d h t ll
In whom the blind heart calls,
For whom the green leaf yellows,
On whom the red leaf falls;

The dumb and tiny creatures

Of flower and blade and sod,
That dimly wear the features
And attributes of God;

The airy migrant comers

On gauzy wings of fire,
Those wanderers and roamers
Of indefinite desire;

The rainbirds and all dwellers

In solitude and peace,
Those lingerers and foretellers
Of infinite release;

Yea, all the dear things living

That rove or bask or swim,
Remembering and misgiving,
Have felt the day grow dim.

Even the glad things growing,

Blossom and fruit and stem,
Are poorer for your going
Because you were of them.

Yet since you loved to cherish

Their pleading beauty here,
Your heart shall not quite perish
In all the golden year;

But God’s great dream above them

Must be a tinge less pale,
Because you lived to love them
And make their joy prevail
And make their joy prevail.
 SEVEN WIND SONGS

Now these are the seven wind songs

For Andrew Straton’s death,
Blown through the reeds of the river,
A sigh of the world’s last breath,

Where the flickering red auroras

Out on the dark sweet hills
Follow all night through the forest
The cry of the whip-poor-wills.

For the meanings of life are many,

But the purpose of love is one,
Journeying, tarrying, lonely
As the sea wind or the sun.

I
 Wind of the Northern land,
Wind of the sea,
No more his dearest hand
Comes back to me.

Wind of the Northern gloom,

Wind of the sea,
Wandering waifs of doom
Feckless are we.

Wind of the Northern land,

Wind of the sea,
I cannot understand
How these things be.

II

Wind of the low red morn

At the world’s end,
Over the standing corn
Whisper and bend.

Then through the low red morn

At the world’s end,
Far out from sorrow’s bourne,
Down glory’s trend,

Tell the last years forlorn

At the world’s end,
Of my one peerless born
Comrade and friend.

III
Wind of the April stars,
Wind of the dawn,
Whether God nears or fars,
He lived and shone.

Wind of the April night,

Wind of the dawn,
No more my heart’s delight
Bugles me on.

Wind of the April rain,

Wind of the dawn,
Lull the old world from pain
Till pain be gone.

IV

Wind of the summer noon,

Wind of the hills,
Gently the hand of June
Stays thee and stills.

Far off, untouched by tears,

Raptures or ills,
Sleeps he a thousand years
Out on the hills.

Wind of the summer noon,

Wind of the hills,
Is the land fair and boon
Whither he wills?

V
Wind of the gulfs of night,
Wind of the sea,
Where the pale streamers light
My world for me,—

Breath of the wintry Norns,

Frost-touch or sleep,—
He whom my spirit mourns
Deep beyond deep

To the last void and dim

Where ages stream—
Is there no room for him
In all this dream?

VI

Wind of the outer waste,

Threne of the outer world,
Leash of the stars unlaced,
Morning unfurled,

Somewhere at God’s great need,

I know not how,
With the old strength and speed
He is come now;

Therefore my soul is glad

With the old pride,
Tho’ this small life is sad
Here in my side.

VII
Wind of the driven snow,
Wind of the sea,
On a long trail and slow
Farers are we.

Wind of the Northern gloom,

Wind of the sea,
Shall I one day resume
His love for me?

Wind of the driven snow,

Wind of the sea,
Then shall thy vagrant know
How these things be.

These are the seven wind songs

For Andrew Straton’s rest,
From the hills of the Scarlet Hunter
And the trail of the endless quest.

The wells of the sunrise harken,

They wait for a year and a day:
Only the calm sure thrushes
Fluting the world away!

For the husk of life is sorrow;

But the kernels of joy remain,
Teeming and blind and eternal
As the hill wind or the rain.
ANDREW STRATON
Andrew Straton was my friend,
With his Saxon eyes and hair,
And his loyal viking spirit,
Like an islesman of the North
With his earldom on the sea.

At his birth the mighty Mother

Made of him a fondling one,
Hushed from pain within her arms,
With her seal upon his lips;

And from that day he was numbered

With the sons of consolation,
Peace and cheer were in his hands,
And her secret in his will.

Now the night has Andrew Straton

Housed from wind and storm forever
In a chamber of the gloom
Where no window fronts the morning,
Lulled to rest at last from roving
To the music of the rain.

And his sleep is in the far-off

Alien villages of the dusk,
Where there is no voice of welcome
To the country of the strangers,
Save the murmur of the pines.

And the fitful winds all day

Through the grass with restless footfalls
Haunt about his narrow door,
Muttering their vast unknown
Border balladry of time,
To the hoarse rote of the sea.
There he reassumes repose,
He who never learned unrest
Here amid our fury of toil,
Undisturbed though all about him
To the cohorts of the night
Sound the bugles of the spring;
And his slumber is not broken
When along the granite hills
Flare the torches of the dawn.

More to me than kith or kin

Was the silence of his speech;
And the quiet of his eyes,
Gathered from the lonely sweep
Of the hyacinthine hills,
Better to the failing spirit
Than a river land in June:
And to look for him at evening
Was more joy than many friends.

As the woodland brooks at noon

Were his brown and gentle hands,
And his face as the hill country
Touched with the red autumn sun

Frank and patient and untroubled

Save by the old trace of doom
In the story of the world.
So the years went brightening by.

Now a lyric wind and weather

Breaks the leaguer of the frost,
And the shining rough month March
Crumbles into sun and rain;
But the glad and murmurous year
Wheels above his rest and wakens
Not a dream for Andrew Straton.
Now the uplands hold an echo
From the meadow lands at morn;
And the marshes hear the rivers
Rouse their giant heart once more,—

Hear the crunching floe start seaward

From a thousand valley floors;
While far on amid the hills
Under stars in the clear night,
The replying, the replying,
Of the ice-cold rivulets
Plashing down the solemn gorges
In their arrowy blue speed,
Fills and frets the crisp blue twilight
With innumerable sound,—
With the whisper of the spring.

But the melting fields are empty,

Something ails the bursting year.

Ah, now helpless, O my rivers,

Are your lifted voices now!
Where is all the sweet compassion
Once your murmur held for me?
Cradled in your dells, I listened
To your crooning, learned your language,
Born your brother and your kin.

When I had the morn for revel,

You made music at my door;
Now the days go darkling on,
And I cannot guess your words.
Shall young joy have troops of neighbors,
While this grief must house alone?

O my brothers of the hills,