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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461393" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dispute</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once 'mid group of native mountains<br>Hot dispute arose,<br>Elbrus, angry, did with Kasbek<br>Argument propose.<br>'Now beware!' the hoary Elbrus,<br>Warning did exclaim--<br>'To enslave thee and enthrall thee<br>Is man's evil aim!<br>Smoking huts he will be building<br>On thy mountain side,<br>Loudly through thy clefts resounding<br>Ring his hatchet wide!<br>The swift swinging iron shovel<br>Breast of stone will part,<br>Of thy bronze and stone will rob thee--<br>Pierce thee to the heart.<br>Caravans, e'en now, are passing<br>Through thy rocks afar,<br>Where before the fogs were swimming--<br>And the Eagle Tsar.<br>Ah, mankind is bold and fearless!<br>Dreads no lifted hand,<br>Guard thee! populous and mighty<br>Is the morning land!'<br>'Threatens me the East?' then queried<br>Kasbek with disdain,<br>'There eight centuries already<br>Sleeping, man has lain.<br>See, in shadow the Grusine<br>Gloats in lustful greed,<br>On his many coloured raiment<br>Glints the winey bead!<br>Drugged with fumes of his nargileh,<br>Dreams the Mussulman--<br>By the fountains on his divan<br>Slumbers Teheran.<br>See! Jerusalem is lying<br>At his feet o'erthrown--<br>Deathly dumb and lifeless staring<br>As an earthly tomb.<br>And beyond the Nile is washing<br>O'er the burning steps<br>Of the Kingly mausoleums,<br>Yellow, shadowless.<br>In his tent, the hunt forgotten--<br>Now the Bedouin lies,<br>Sings the old ancestral legends,<br>Scans the starry skies.<br>See! far as the eye can venture,<br>All sleeps as before--<br>No, the threat of dreaming Orient<br>Frights me nevermore!'<br>'Laugh thou not too early, Kasbek,'<br>Elbrus did persist--<br>'Look! What vast mass is it turning<br>Northward, through the mist?'<br>Secretly the heart of Kasbek<br>Faltered,--as amazed,<br>Silent and with dark foreboding<br>To the North he gazed:<br>Full of woe stared in the distance;<br>What a thronging swarm!<br>Hark! there rings the clash of weapons!<br>Battle-cry alarm!<br>From the Don unto the Ural<br>What a human sea!<br>Regiments that wave and glitter<br>Past all counting be!<br>Feathers white like sedge of ocean,<br>Waving in a gust--<br>Many coloured Uhlans storming<br>Through the blowing dust.<br>The imperial battalions<br>Densely packed proceed,<br>Trumpets flaring, banners flying<br>In the victor's lead.<br>Batteries with brasses rattling<br>Conquering advance,<br>With their blood-red splendor flashing<br>Cannon matches glance.<br>And a battle-proved commander<br>Leads the army there--<br>From whose eyes the lightning flashes,<br>'Neath his snowy hair.<br>Swells the host until as Griesbach's<br>Billows roaring loud,<br>From the Eastward nears the army<br>As a thunder cloud.<br>Kasbek peered with sinister boding<br>Through the clouds,--would fain<br>Count his enemies approaching--<br>Found it was in vain:<br>Threw one glance unto the mountains--<br>Anguished, overcome,<br>O'er his brow drew close the vapours,<br>Was forever dumb.</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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Hot dispute arose,
Elbrus, angry, did with Kasbek
Argument propose.
'Now beware!' the hoary Elbrus,
Warning did exclaim--
'To enslave thee and enthrall thee
Is man's evil aim!
Smoking huts he will be building
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