<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461402" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Kasbek</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With winged footsteps now I hasten<br>Unto the far cold North away,<br>Kasbek,--thou watchman of the East,<br>To thee, my farewell greetings say!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since all eternity, a turban<br>Snow white, thy glorious brow has veiled,<br>The peace sublime about thy glacier<br>The strife of man has ne'er assailed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Accept my humble supplication,<br>Hear thy submissive faithful son,<br>To starry heights lift his entreaty<br>To Allah's everlasting throne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do implore--spice breathing coolness<br>Through sultry sun-glow in the vale,<br>A stone for rest unto the pilgrim<br>In whirling dust of desert gale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Turn, I implore, the storm's hot hatred,<br>The deadly thunderous lightning's course--<br>In Dariel's wild pass protect me<br>And my distracted, trembling horse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet one prayer more my heart audacious,<br>Weeping, lifts up in bodeful stress,<br>What if my native land forget me<br>In my sad exile's loneliness?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Will, greeting me by name familiar,<br>My friend then open wide his arms?<br>Will e'en my brothers recognise me,<br>So changed by many griefs and harms?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perchance my foot will fall profaning<br>Dust of those loved in youth's far day,<br>The pure and noble, deeply trusted--<br>Withered as Autumn leaves in May.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Kasbek, then with earth o'erwhelm me!<br>Snow o'er thy weary wanderer back,<br>And blow away my dust and scatter<br>Along thy rock-ridged clefts lone track!</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461402" data-title="To Kasbek de Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov" data-description="With winged footsteps now I hasten Unto the far cold North away, Kasbek,--thou watchman of the East, To thee, my farewell greetings say! Since all eternity, a turban Snow white, thy glorious brow has veiled, The peace sublime about thy glacier Th..."></div> </div> </div>

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