Travelogues; . ast; isnow caressing with insidiousintent the Central Asian stateson the frontier of British Muscovite standing uponthe top of Ivans Tower no longerutters the cry with which hisfathers drove the Mongols forth,Russia for the Russians! IVAN VELIKY 224 MOSCOW voices the new ambition of his race in the tremendous words, The world for Russia ! RUSSIA Thou dread Colossus of the North ! astride Two continents that link the East and West, One foot on the Pacifics margin pressed. One planted by the Baltics icy tide ; The laws of Nature and of man defied ; Patient — thy hearts a

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Travelogues; . ast; isnow caressing with insidiousintent the Central Asian stateson the frontier of British Muscovite standing uponthe top of Ivans Tower no longerutters the cry with which hisfathers drove the Mongols forth,Russia for the Russians! IVAN VELIKY 224 MOSCOW voices the new ambition of his race in the tremendous words, The world for Russia ! RUSSIA Thou dread Colossus of the North ! astride Two continents that link the East and West, One foot on the Pacifics margin pressed. One planted by the Baltics icy tide ; The laws of Nature and of man defied ; Patient — thy hearts ambitions unconfessed ; Binding with bands of steel each new acquest,— Door after door, thy golden key throws wide. Yet when the nations furiously rage. Thine is the voice that bids them Christs words heed f True to thy Muscovitish heritage,— Masking with courteous smiles insatiate greed, Russia for Russians ! blazed thy lifes first page. The world for Russia ! now thine unwrit creed 1 — Frances Bartlett.

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