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Title: The Talisman
Author: George Borrow
Release Date: May 27, 2004 [eBook #12458]
Language: English
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALISMAN***
Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE TALISMAN
FROM THE RUSSIAN OF ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
WITH OTHER PIECES
Contents:
The Talisman
The Mermaid
Ancient Russian Song
Ancient Ballad
The Renegade
THE TALISMAN
From the Russian of Pushkin.
Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem’s countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
And said: until thy latest minute
Preserve, preserve my Talisman;
A secret power it holds within it—
’Twas love, true love the gift did plan.
From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
Thou scap’st not by my Talisman.
The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold ’twill not bestow;
’Twill not subdue the turban’d numbers,
Before the Prophet’s shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
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