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THE FAIR OF NIJNI-NOVGOROD by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR

First Line: NOW, BY THE TOWER OF BABEL
Last Line: WAS EVER SUCH A CROWD?
Subject(s): FESTIVALS; NIJNI-NOVGOROD, RUSSIA; RUSSIA; FAIRS; PAGEANTS; SOVIET UNION; RUSSIANS;
NOW, by the Tower of Babel,
Was ever such a crowd?
Here Turks and Jews and Gypsies,
There Persians haughty-browed;
With silken-robed Celestials,
And Frenchmen from the Seine,
And Khivans and Bokhariotes, --
Heirs of the Oxus plain.
Here stalk Siberian hunters;
There tents a Kirghiz clan
By mournful-eyed Armenians
From wave-girt Astrakhan;
And Russ and Pole and Tartar,
And mounted Cossack proud, --
Now, by the Tower of Babel,
Was ever such a crowd?



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