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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413325" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dark Stag</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1 A startled stag, the blue-grey Night,<br>2 Leaps down beyond black pines.<br>3 Behind--a length of yellow light--<br>4 The hunter's arrow shines:<br>5 His moccasins are stained with red,<br>6 He bends upon his knee,<br>7 From covering peaks his shafts are sped,<br>8 The blue mists plume his mighty head,--<br>9 Well may the swift Night flee! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">10 The pale, pale Moon, a snow-white doe,<br>11 Bounds by his dappled flank:<br>12 They beat the stars down as they go,<br>13 Like wood-bells growing rank.<br>14 The winds lift dewlaps from the ground,<br>15 Leap from the quaking reeds;<br>16 Their hoarse bays shake the forests round,<br>17 With keen cries on the track they bound,--<br>18 Swift, swift the dark stag speeds! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">19 Away! his white doe, far behind,<br>20 Lies wounded on the plain;<br>21 Yells at his flank the nimblest wind,<br>22 His large tears fall in rain;<br>23 Like lily-pads, small clouds grow white<br>24 About his darkling way;<br>25 From his bald nest upon the height<br>26 The red-eyed eagle sees his flight;<br>27 He falters, turns, the antlered Night,--<br>28 The dark stag stands at bay! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">29 His feet are in the waves of space;<br>30 His antlers broad and dun<br>31 He lowers; he turns his velvet face<br>32 To front the hunter, Sun;<br>33 He stamps the lilied clouds, and high<br>34 His branches fill the west.<br>35 The lean stork sails across the sky,<br>36 The shy loon shrieks to see him die,<br>37 The winds leap at his breast. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">38 Roar the rent lakes as thro' the wave<br>39 Their silver warriors plunge,<br>40 As vaults from core of crystal cave<br>41 The strong, fierce muskallunge;<br>42 Red torches of the sumach glare,<br>43 Fall's council-fires are lit;<br>44 The bittern, squaw-like, scolds the air;<br>45 The wild duck splashes loudly where<br>46 The rustling rice-spears knit. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">47 Shaft after shaft the red Sun speeds:<br>48 Rent the stag's dappled side,<br>49 His breast, fanged by the shrill winds, bleeds,<br>50 He staggers on the tide;<br>51 He feels the hungry waves of space<br>52 Rush at him high and blue;<br>53 Their white spray smites his dusky face,<br>54 Swifter the Sun's fierce arrows race<br>55 And pierce his stout heart thro'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">56 His antlers fall; once more he spurns<br>57 The hoarse hounds of the day;<br>58 His blood upon the crisp blue burns,<br>59 Reddens the mounting spray;<br>60 His branches smite the wave--with cries<br>61 The loud winds pause and flag--<br>62 He sinks in space--red glow the skies,<br>63 The brown earth crimsons as he dies,<br>64 The strong and dusky stag.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isabella+Valancy+Crawford">Isabella Valancy Crawford</a><div class=q>
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2 Leaps down beyond black pines.
3 Behind--a length of yellow light--
4 The hunter's arrow shines:
5 His moccasins are stained with red,
6 He bends upon his knee,
7 From covering peaks his shafts are sped,
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