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ROMANIAN SONGS AND BALLADS

ROMANIAN SONGS AND BALLADS BY R.

STEWART PATTERSON

London

John Long, Limited Norris Street,

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TO

THE GENIUS OF

THE BRAVE ROMANIAN RACE WHOSE

CLASSIC SOIL IS

NOW ENSANGUINED

BY THE

BLOOD OF ITS HEROIC SONS AND DEFENDERS, THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED IN A SPIRIT OF

AFFECTION AND ADMIRATION BY ONE

WHO

FEELS ASSURED

THAT A NOBLE PEOPLE

INSPIRED BY

THEIR NATIONAL MOTTO, " NIMIC FARA DUMNEZIEU,' AND SUSTAINED BY THE ANCIENT ADAGE OF THEIR FOREFATHERS, " ROMAN NU PERE,"

WILL ARISE IN THEIR MIGHT

AND EXPEL THE FOES

FROM FOREST AND FROM FRONTIER

HEATHSIDE

SANDBRSTEAD

Preface

THE

Rev.

the

Forces,

Stewart

R.

Patterson,

Chaplain to

Chaplain to the British Colony in Romania attached to His Britannic late

Majesty's Legation, Bucarest, will afford great to

pleasure in

of

his

Romanian

numerous

friends

the British public the result his researches in the rich folklore of their

presenting

The

country. their

to

selection

is

judiciously

chosen,

melancholy truthfully rentranslating from a language

characteristic

dered,

while

in

bearing but little relationship to the English nothing of the poetical charm of the original is lost.

My

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