Traveller.
me urigin of the White Eagle.
A Bulgarian Legend.
BT WM. STUDrnEItS. On oak-crowned Bilkan peroheth, lone anc! g r &y, " - An eagle, that as old nge draweth near, Flaps no more cloudward with triumphant fleer Bearing a shepherd's lambkin as his prey ; _ Nor scare- th swat thy children from their play, When mid the rayah's craft fowl dcream in fear. Nayl he now leavelh thoso high craga to steer Acroß3 the Sporades at death of day ! 3-oel to the Jordan wiugethho is flight. Wherein he dip 3 hia plumage dim, when lo 1 By miracle bshold it dazzling white 1 And with a new life in his eagle breast, Homo, home he speeds, Bulgaria's bird 0! anow, To plunder Ba'kan lands from east to west 1
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1815, 25 July 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)
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