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And the Shaman said 'Lo now we shall show no more miracles	A
nor the power of God that is in us but we shall weep	B
for we have come unto people who see not the sun	C
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'Neither is it fitting to give them teaching for misfortune hath taught them more	D
nor shall we give them hope for they will not believe	E
In the sentence that condemned them was written Forever '	-
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'Behold here are the mines of Siberia	F
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'Walk here circumspectly for this ground is paved with sleeping men	G
Dost thou hear	H
Lo they breathe loudly and some of them groan and talk in their sleep	B
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'One of his mother another of his sisters and brothers	I
and a third of his home and of her whom he loved in his heart	J
and of the fields where the corn bowed down to him as to its lord	K
and they are happy now in their sleep but they will wake	L
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'In other mines the felons howl	M
but this is only the grave of the sons of the fatherland	N
and is full of silence	O
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'The chain that clanketh here hath a mourn full voice	P
and in the vault are various echoes	Q
and one echo that saith I pity you ' '	-
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While the Shaman compassionated them	R
there came guards and soldiers with lamps to wake the sleepers to work	S
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They all arose from the ground therefore	D
and roused themselves and went like sheep with hanging heads	T
except one who did not rise for he had died in his sleep	B
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Then Anhelli approaching those who were going to work with their mallets	T
asked one of them in a low voice who this dead man was	T
and of what illness he had perished	U
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Thereupon there answered him a pale man a prisoner	V
'He concerning whom thou dost inquire was a priest	W
I knew him he confessed my wife and my children in the fatherland	N
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'But when war came he seated himself upon a horse with the cross in his hand and with zo bare feet	X
and when there was firing he stood in front of the ranks crying out	Y
For the fatherland For the fatherland '	-
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'And the bishop summoned him and gave him over into the hands of the executioners	T
but first in the city square he deprived him of his holy office	T
and the bishop dropped from his hands his crosier and he swooned	Z
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'And the executioners caught the man of God and thrust him into a strait jacket	A2
and then they fastened him in it with difficulty for he was a stout man	B2
and he became motionless like a thing dead	C2
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'Then they brought him to the mine	D2
and he pretended that he was glad in his heart	J
Io but I saw that he was pale and sad	E2
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'And he gave himself up to despair and withered like an old tree	F2
And coming up to him once I said Fear God Why dost thou fret a'	G2
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'And he said to me with great mystery like a man crazed	H2
I have forgotten the words of the Lord's Prayer '	-
and warning me with his finger to be quiet he departed	I2
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'And I observed him once when in the dark	J2
he took putrid lead and ate that poison	C
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'And after a few days a brick red came into his face	T
and his body wasted away on his bones	T
like the drenched linen of a tent	K2
and he had eyes that glittered	L2
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'But today I know not how he died for behold I slept beside him	M2
and I did not hear that he even groaned	N2
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'But if ye have a heart pity him for I know him he was an upright man '	-
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Then Anhelli turning to the Shaman said 'He is a self murderer '	-
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But the Shaman covered his eyes and lifting up a morsel of lead from the ground said	C2
'This lead is the murderer and evil counsellor for it said	C2
Take me and eat me I am the end and repose '	-
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'This lead is a cheat for it gave itself out before he man for God	O2
who alone endeth suffering forever and putteth the heart at rest	P2
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'And cursed is he who before the least gust falleth to the ground	Q2
and is crushed He is like a shattered column	R2
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'But before mighty whirlwinds even ye are permitted to fall ye shall be pitied	S2
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'What then Will they deny you consecrated ground	Q2
Who knoweth how a man sleepeth in an unconsecrated grave	T2
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'Nevertheless it is better to die amid a throng of children and grandchildren who weep	B
and to behold the unfolding of the trees in the spring and to have a quiet hour '	-
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When the Shaman had spoken thus	T
the wretched men surrounded him in a circle and said	C2
'Thou dost teach well thou art a man of heart and perhaps one sent from God	O2
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'Lo therefore know thou that five days ago a rock fell and blocked one of the corridors	T
where a certain old man was working with his five sons	T
and the guards do not wish to break it down with powder saying	U2
That is a long task let him die '	-
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'And we stand every day before that rock	V2
listening whether they still live	W2
but nothing is to be heard in that cave not even a groan	X2
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'If thou art a man of God roll away the stone	X2
Perhaps the father yet liveth or one of his children	C
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'At least make our executioners marvel freeing these men for they will die of hunger '	-
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So they brought the Shaman to that rock	V2
and a great stillness fell and the Shaman	C
raising his eyes on high prayed	Y2
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And a wind rose from under the ground	Q2
and overturned the rock so that there was opened up cavern dark and deep	B
and no one dared enter first into it	Z2
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So the Shaman taking a fire pot	A3
went into the cave over the shattered stones	T
and after him Anhelli and the prisoners	T
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And a ghastly sight they beheld	A3
Lo on the body of the youngest son lay the father	V
like a dog that putteth his paws on bones and is angry	F2
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And the open eyes of that father glistened like glass	T
and the four others lay dead near by one beside another	V
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And the Shaman looking on them said 'What have I done	C
Lo the father liveth and his sons have already died	A3
Why did I pray '	-
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So saying he departed from the cave	T2
and half the multitude followed after him	M2

Juliusz Slowacki

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