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he sorrowful country	A
and over the desolate roads and under the roaring forests of Siberia	B
meeting men who suffered and comforting them	C
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And lo one evening they walked beside still and stagnant water	D
above which grew some weeping willows and a few pines	E
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And the Shaman seeing the fishes leaping out toward the evening glow said	F
'Lo thou sawest this roach that flew through the air and again sank	G
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'And now she will tell her sisters at the bottom that she hath beheld the heaven	H
and she will tell them various things of heaven	H
and from that she will have honour among the other fishes	I
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'Hearing then the tale of the heavens	J
they will swim into the nets and tomorrow	K
they will be sold in the market place	L
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'Is not that a lesson for men and for those who wander like festoons after men	M
who prattle of God and the heavens	J
and so let themselves be snared in the nets of men and be sold	N
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'But a fatal illness I tell thee	A
is melancholy and excessive pondering within oneself of the things of the spirit	O
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'For there are two melancholies	J
one cometh from strength the other from weakness	J
the first is the wings of lofty men the second the stone of men who drown themselves	J
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'I tell thee this for thou dost incline to sorrow and dost lose hope '	-
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So saying they came upon a throng of Siberians who were catching fish in the lake	P
And those fishermen having perceived the Shaman ran up to him saying	Q
'Our king Thou didst forsake us for strange people	R
and we are sorrowful not seeing thee amongst us	J
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'Tarry through this night and we will set out supper and spread thee a bed in the boat '	-
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The Shaman seated himself on the ground	S
therefore and the women and children of the fishermen surrounded him	T
and put to him various questions	J
to which the Shaman answered with a smile for they were trivial	R
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But after supper when the moon arose	J
and spread her light over the smooth water like a golden highway to the south	U
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The women and children began to talk more sadly	A
saying 'Lo thou hast left us and dost work no more miracles among us	J
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'Therefore we have begun to doubt the things of the faith	V
and we doubt even whether there is in us such a thing as a soul ' To this the Shaman said smiling	Q
'Do ye desire that I should show you a soul before your eyes '	-
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And all the women and children cried out in unison	H
'We desire it Do so '	-
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Then the Shaman turning to Anhelli said	F
'What shall I do for this crowd of magpies	J
Dost thou wish me to put thee to sleep and	W
having called thy soul from thy body to show it to these people '	-
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Anhelli answered him 'Do as thou wilt	X
I am in thy power '	-
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Then the Shaman having called one of the children from the throng	Y
placed it upon the breast of Anhelli	A
who had lain down as if to sleep	Z
and said to that child	A2
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'Lo lay thy hands upon the brow of this youth	B2
and summon him three times by the name Anhelli '	-
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And it came to pass that at the child's call	A
there came forth from Anhelli a spirit having a beautiful form	C2
and varying colours and white wings on its shoulders	J
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And seeing that it was free that angel walked to the water	D
and along the column of moonlight proceeded toward the south	U
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Then when it was already far off and in the centre of the lake	P
the Shaman bade that child call the soul to return	D2
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And the bright soul looked back at the summons of the child	A2
and returned lingeringly over the golden wave	E2
trailing behind it the tips of its wings that drooped in sorrow	K
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And when the Shaman bade it enter into the body of the young man	F2
it groaned like a broken harp and shuddered but it obeyed	G2
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And awaking Anhelli sat up and asked what had befallen him	T
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The fishermen answered him 'Master we have seen thy soul	A
and we beg thee be our king	Q
For the kings of China are not arrayed in such glory	A
as the soul that is of thy body	A
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'And we have seen nothing more glorious in	H2
the world except the sun and nothing more brightly gleaming	Q
except the stars that are rosy and blue	A
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'Wings like these have not the swans	J
that fly in May over our land	I2
'And we even perceived a fragrance like the fragrance of a thousand flowers	J
and the breath of lilies of the valley '	-
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Hearing this Anhelli turned to the Shaman and said	F
'Is this true ' And the Shaman said	F
'It is true thou art possessed of an angel '	-
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'What then ' asked Anhelli 'did my soul do	A
when it was free Tell me for I remember not '	-
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The Shaman answered him	T
'Lo it went along that golden highway that the moon spreadeth upon the water	D
and fled in that direction like a man who is in haste '	-
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And at these words Anhelli bowed his head	F
and after pondering within himself began to weep saying	Q
'Lo it desired to return to the fatherland '	-

Juliusz Slowacki

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