Word: lazar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beak he bears a swallow. . . . The grey falcon comes to Tsar Lazar at Kossovo and says...
...Tsar Lazar, of honourable stock...
...prince . . . with them. . . . Lazar chose a heavenly kingdom since...
...heavenly kingdom will last for eternity and its centuries. . . . Then the Turks overwhelmed Lazar, And the Tsar Lazar was destroyed, And his army was destroyed with him, Of seven and seventy thousand soldiers. All was holy and honourable And the goodness of God was fulfilled. The song annoyed Novelist West. Her first remark was: "So that was what happened, Lazar was a member of the Peace Pledge Union." To herself she said: "Lazar was wrong, he saved his soul and there followed five hundred years when no man on these plains, nor anywhere else in Europe for hundreds of miles...
Later Author West tells how from be leaguered England she watched the Yugoslavs struggle against themselves to save their soul and meet certain defeat at the hands of the Nazis. "In this hour the Yugoslavs often repeated the poem of Tsar Lazar and the grey falcon. . . . 'All was holy, all was honourable,' they quoted, looking down from the tall tower of prescience on the field of their coming fate, 'and the goodness of God was fulfilled.' " Then she was sure that it was a poem of life, not of death...