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A startled stag the blue grey Night	A
Leaps down beyond black pines	B
Behind a length of yellow light	A
The hunter's arrow shines	B
His moccasins are stained with red	C
He bends upon his knee	D
From covering peaks his shafts are sped	C
The blue mists plume his mighty head	C
Well may the swift Night flee	D
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The pale pale Moon a snow white doe	E
Bounds by his dappled flank	F
They beat the stars down as they go	E
Like wood bells growing rank	F
The winds lift dewlaps from the ground	G
Leap from the quaking reeds	H
Their hoarse bays shake the forests round	G
With keen cries on the track they bound	G
Swift swift the dark stag speeds	H
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Away his white doe far behind	I
Lies wounded on the plain	J
Yells at his flank the nimblest wind	I
His large tears fall in rain	J
Like lily pads small clouds grow white	A
About his darkling way	K
From his bald nest upon the height	A
The red eyed eagle sees his flight	A
He falters turns the antlered Night	A
The dark stag stands at bay	K
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His feet are in the waves of space	L
His antlers broad and dun	M
He lowers he turns his velvet face	L
To front the hunter Sun	M
He stamps the lilied clouds and high	N
His branches fill the west	O
The lean stork sails across the sky	N
The shy loon shrieks to see him die	N
The winds leap at his breast	O
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Roar the rent lakes as thro' the wave	P
Their silver warriors plunge	Q
As vaults from core of crystal cave	P
The strong fierce muskallunge	Q
Red torches of the sumach glare	R
Fall's council fires are lit	S
The bittern squaw like scolds the air	R
The wild duck splashes loudly where	R
The rustling rice spears knit	S
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Shaft after shaft the red Sun speeds	H
Rent the stag's dappled side	T
His breast fanged by the shrill winds bleeds	H
He staggers on the tide	T
He feels the hungry waves of space	L
Rush at him high and blue	U
Their white spray smites his dusky face	L
Swifter the Sun's fierce arrows race	L
And pierce his stout heart thro'	R
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His antlers fall once more he spurns	V
The hoarse hounds of the day	K
His blood upon the crisp blue burns	V
Reddens the mounting spray	K
His branches smite the wave with cries	W
The loud winds pause and flag	X
He sinks in space red glow the skies	W
The brown earth crimsons as he dies	W
The strong and dusky stag	X

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