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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461383" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Death Of Pushkin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He fell, a slave of tinsel-honour,<br>A sacrifice to slander's lust;<br>The haughty Poet's head, the noblest,<br>Bowed on his wounded breast in dust.<br>No longer could his free soul suffer<br>The vulgar world's low infamy;<br>He rose against the world's opinion,<br>And as a hero, lone fell he.<br>He fell! To what avail the sobbing--<br>The useless choir of tears and praise?<br>Wretched the stammering excuses!<br>The Fates have spoke,--no power allays!<br>Have ye not at all times together<br>His sacred genius baited sore,<br>The silent fury fanned to flaming,<br>Delighted in your work before?<br>O be triumphant! Earthly torment<br>The Poet soul did fully bear,<br>Extinguished are the lights inspired,<br>The laurel crown lies leafless there!<br>The murderer contemptuous gazing<br>Did stedfastly his weapon aim,<br>No swifter beat his heart, Assassin!<br>Nor shook his lifted hand for shame.<br>No wonder; from a distance came he<br>As an adventurer unknown,<br>For worthy title, star of order--<br>Stood but his mad desire alone.<br>Sneering and self-complacent mocked he<br>The rights and customs of our land,<br>He could not understand our glory,<br>Against which he has raised his hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Hence is he, hence! His song out-rung,<br>The Singer even as the song he sung;<br>Who of a hot, heroic mood,<br>In death disgraceful shed his blood!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why did he leave his home life tranquil,<br>To seek the envious market place,<br>Where each free flame is suffocated,<br>Expose him to the assassin base?<br>The human breed, who had known better<br>Since earliest years of youth, than he--<br>Why did he trust the false pretending<br>Of malice and hypocrisy?<br>Ah, of his laurel wreath you robbed him,<br>Gave him a martyr's crown instead,<br>And now the cruel thorns have pierced him<br>E'en to the blood of his proud head!<br>His last days were for him envenomed--<br>Through senseless fools' contempt aggrieved,<br>He died revenge a'thirst, accusing<br>That every hope his heart deceived!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mute evermore the magic echoes,<br>That ne'er shall wonders more reveal,<br>The Poet's home is dark and narrow--<br>Upon the Singer's lips a seal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But ye, sons insolent and shameless--<br>Defamers, faithless fathers, ye!<br>Who trod the pure soul of another<br>Beneath your feet, who zealously<br>Press to the Tsar's throne with your driveling<br>For fame and freedom, hatred steeled!<br>Well may you sneer at truth and justice,<br>The law provides you screen and shield,<br>Only a higher law shall sentence!<br>A mighty Judge beyond assail<br>Avenge the Poet's death on his slayers,<br>The Highest Judge who does not fail!<br>So then calumniate with brazen courage,<br>Your hatred's fury nought restrains--<br>Since your dark blood could ne'er atone for<br>One drop within the Poet's pure veins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mikhail+Yuryevich+Lermontov">Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov</a><div class=q>
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A sacrifice to slander's lust;
The haughty Poet's head, the noblest,
Bowed on his wounded breast in dust.
No longer could his free soul suffer
The vulgar world's low infamy;
He rose against the world's opinion,
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