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    With fainting soul athirst for Grace,<br />
    I wandered in a desert place,<br />
    And at the crossing of the ways<br />
    I saw a sixfold Seraph blaze;<br />
    He touched mine eyes with fingers light<br />
    As sleep that cometh in the night:<br />
    And like a frightened eagle's eyes,<br />
    They opened wide with prophecies.<br />
    He touched mine ears, and they were drowned<br />
    With tumult and a roaring sound:<br />
    I heard convulsion in the sky,<br />
    And flight of angel hosts on high,<br />
    And beasts that move beneath the sea,<br />
    And the sap creeping in the tree.<br />
    And bending to my mouth he wrung<br />
    From out of it my sinful tongue,<br />
    And all its lies and idle rust,<br />
    And 'twixt my lips a-perishing<br />
    A subtle serpent's forked sting<br />
    With right hand wet with blood he thrust.<br />
    And with his sword my breast he cleft,<br />
    My quaking heart thereout he reft,<br />
    And in the yawning of my breast<br />
    A coal of living fire he pressed.<br />
    Then in the desert I lay dead,<br />
    And God called unto me and said:<br />
    "Arise, and let My voice be heard,<br />
    Charged with My will go forth and span<br />
    The land and sea, and let My word<br />
    Lay waste with fire the heart of man."<br />
    ~Alexander Pushkin
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