Juliusz Slowacki Great Poems

  • 1.
    Exiles came to the land of Siberia, and having chosen a broad site they built a
    wooden house that they might dwell together in concord and brotherly love; and
    there were of them about a thousand men of various stations in life.

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  • 2.
    And the Shaman said : 'Lo, now we shall show no more miracles,
    nor the power of God that is in us, but we shall weep,
    for we have come unto people who see not the sun.

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  • 3.
    e fishermen and set out into the wilderness.

    And the moon was still high when they came to the hut of an aged man,
    who greeted the Shaman like an old friend. He was one of the exiles of Bar, the last one.
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  • 4.
    of the Shaman, had begun to quarrel among themselves,
    and had divided into three groups ;
    but each of these groups thought of the deliverance of the fatherland.

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  • 5.
    Surging like a vast current of salmon or sheatfish,
    Coiling up and down like an iron serpent
    That rears now its torso, now its head,
    The armed horsemen breast the prairie grass. --
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  • 6.
    And passing further they beheld many men pale and tortured,
    whose names are known in the fatherland.

    And they came to a subterranean lake,
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  • 7.
    The Shaman, when he had searched in the hearts of that multitude of exiles,
    said to himself: 'Verily, I have not found here what I sought;
    lo, their hearts are weak and they give themselves over to be conquered by grief.

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  • 8.
    And lo, once on a time at night the Shaman waked Anhelli,
    saying to him : 'Sleep not, but come with me,
    for there are mighty matters in the wilderness.'

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  • 9.
    And when the Shaman was about to go forth with Anhelli under the stars,
    having comforted some of the prisoners,
    he heard a great clanking in one of the corridors.

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Total 9 Great Poems by Juliusz Slowacki

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