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Had rear'd not their pyramids there:

But we knew not the spirit sublime

Of music, and pathos, and song,

Look'd down from the towers of Belgrad,

Had dwelt in the Mōrava long,

In the garb of Trebunia was clad; We welcome thee now to the throng Of our muses, rejoicing and glad.

Unborrow'd the light thou hast shed,

Though mild as the light of the moon: Thy flowers, from thine own native bed, Thou hast gather'd and given: Not soon Shall they fade; and thy music shall spread, And voices unnumber'd attune.

My song will but fall on thine ear,

As a voice that appeals to the grave:

In vain I invite thee to hear:

Go, happy enthusiast! and save

From time's storm the memorials so dear, Which had else been o'erwhelm'd in its wave.

Thy tenement is but of clay;

Thou art frailer than most of us be:

Yet a sunshine has lighted thy way,

Whose effluence is sunshine to me:And 'tis sweet o'er thy Servia to stray,

And to listen, pale minstrel! to thee.

INTRODUCTION.

In the middle of the seventh century, a number of Slavonian tribes stretched themselves along the Sava and the Danube, down to the Black Sea, and founded, at different times, no less than six separate kingdoms, those of Bulgaria, Croatia, Servia, Bosnia, Slavonia, and Dalmatia; under the name Srb, the four last of these nations must be considered as comprised.

Their earlier history it is not easy to trace. Slavonian writers are disposed to represent the Maestidæ, who made an incursion into Italy during the age of Claudius Tacitus (A.D. 276), as synonymous with the Sarmata; and Kopitar (a high authority) has gathered much evidence to prove that the dialect spoken in the district to the east of Sparta is of Slavonic origin. Leake has remarked, that many of the names of places in the Morea are Slavonian,-Kastanika, Sitina, Gorica, and others. In the neighbourhood of Sparta is a town called raboxwçi, and it is notorious, that the language of several of the islands of the Grecian Archipelago, Hydra for example, is Slavonic. The original meaning of the word Srb, it is not

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