{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/hbs/hbs29.htm","path":"neu/hbs/hbs29.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/hbs/hbs29.htm","text":"Sacred-Texts\u00a0Legends & Sagas\u00a0Index\u00a0Previous\u00a0Next\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n p. 172\n \n \n \n PRINCE MARKO\u2019S PLOWING\n \n WITH his mother, Y\u00e9vrosima, his thirst did Marko slake\n \n On the red wine. When they had drunk, to him his mother spake:\n \n \u2003\u201cO thou, Prince Marko, prithee cease from the ravage and the raid;\n \n Never on earth is evil with a good deed repaid.\n \n Weary is thy mother of washing from thy shirts the crimson stain.\n \n But do thou now yoke ox to plow, and plow the hill and the plain.\n \n Sow thou the white wheat, little son, that thou and I may sup.\u201d\n \n \u2003Marko harkened his mother, and he yoked the oxen up;\n \n He plows not the hill, nor the valley; but he plows the tsar\u2019s highway.\n \n Some janissaries came thereby; three packs of gold had they:\n \n \u2003\u201cPlow not the tsar his highway, Prince Marko,\u201d said they then.\n \n \u2003\u201cYe Turks, mar not my plowing!\u201d he answered them again.\n \n \u2003\u201cPlow not the tsar his highway, Prince Marko,\u201d they said anew.\n \n \u2003\u201cYe Turks, mar not my plowing!\u201d he answered thereunto.\n \n \u2003But Marko was vext; in anger he lifted ox and plow,\n \n \n \n \n \n p. 173\n \n \n \n And the Turkish janissaries he slew thero at a blow,\n \n And their three packs of treasure to his mother he bore away:\n \n \u2003\u201cLo, mother, what my plowing hath won for thee to-day!\u201d\n \n \n \n Next","title":"PRINCE MARKO\u2019S PLOWING","type":"page"}