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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Dimbovitza

By Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) (1843–1916)

DIMBOVITZA! Magic river,

Silver-shining, memory-haunted;

He who drinks thy crystal waters

Ne’er can quit thy shores enchanted.

Dimbovitza! all too deeply

Drank I of thy flowing river;

For my love, my inmost being,

There meseems have sunk forever.

Dimbovitza! Dimbovitza!

All my soul hast thou in keeping,

Since beneath thy banks of verdure

Lies my dearest treasure sleeping.