Poems and Prose [antikvár]

BULGARIA'S MAN OF GENIUS Christo Botev. As great and immortal as the Balkans which offered him their lap for a cradle, their summit for eternal home. As great as Bulgaria - he enwrapped her all in his name, embracing the last of her mountain huts. As eternal as Bulgaria. Her symbol. Her man of genius. Botev is a revolutionary ideologist and thinker, a revolutionary with spirited and sober verve, a legendary leader, the most glorious of all Bulgarian leaders, a daring journalist and editor, a high-spirited publicist, a poet, originator of an ideology; his own land takes pride in him as much as mankind as a whole. Christo Botev. Quite a young man, a charmingly young man, he reached the heights of human thought in his own time, viewed the past with a clear gaze and fixed his far-seeing eyes in the days to come. His union with the people, that is, his birth out of the people, made it clear to him that a national