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"The Talisman…With Other Pieces" is a collection of Russian ballads, with the headline piece from the famous book by Alexander Pushkin, "The Russian". "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."
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