A HUNGARIAN PE;aSANT GIRIv 



Photo by IJrdelyi 



"This brave, patient, enduring folk has sung its race back to its ancient freedom._ It 

 has sung, in the sweet mother-tongue that but for it had been long forgotten, of the glorious 

 dead and the stricken field, of memories enshrined in wonderful lore, of hope and of regret; 

 never of despair. For it has, withal, that touch of humor which none but a Magyar could 

 so finely have described as 'the smile between tears' " (see text, page 327)- 



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