The Peasant Song.

[**The following is a song popular among the peasant population of former-Imperial Russia during the Russian Revolution**] >Arise, lift yourselves up, Russian people, >Arise for battle, hungry brother, >Let the cry of the people’s vengeance ring out – >Onward, onward, onward! > >We’ve suffered insult long enough, >And submitted too long to the nobles! >Let us straighten our powerful backs >And show the enemy our strength! > >So arise, brothers, arise and be bold, >And then shall the land be ours once more, >And from bitter aspens shall we hang >Every last lackey of that Vampire-Tsar. >- “The Peasant Song,” 1917 __________________________________ **Source:** Fleming, Candace. "Part Three: The Storm Breaks." *The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia*. 123. Print.