<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476305" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Kalmuck Bride</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I HAVE saddled your white steed, and I have burnished them-<br>Your belt with crystal clasps, your lance, your scimitar,<br>Your carbine silver-chased; now ere you mount and ride<br>Across the sky-wide steppe, a horseman to the war:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A promise make your bride: that at the self-same hour,<br>Whether you gallop on or halt in some wide mart,<br>You'll look up at the moon, so round, so full, so bright,<br>The almost moveless moon, with longing in your heart!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I beside the tent will gaze and gaze and gaze<br>Upon the self-same moon that's like the looking-glass<br>You brought me from the fair of whitened Kadajah,<br>The present from your hand in which I saw my face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Shine, lance and scimitar, shine belt, and shine, carbine, <br>With magic of the moon I have endued your shine!)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Charmed by that double gaze, the moon that's won unto<br>The magic I contrive, will mirror my wan face,<br>And you will see above, so far, so still, so sad,<br>The daughter of the Khan who nightly seeks your gaze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Padraic+Colum">Padraic Colum</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=476305" data-title="Kalmuck Bride de Padraic Colum" data-description="I HAVE saddled your white steed, and I have burnished them- Your belt with crystal clasps, your lance, your scimitar, Your carbine silver-chased; now ere you mount and ride Across the sky-wide steppe, a horseman to the war: A promise make your br..."></div> </div> </div>

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