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Baydary

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Give wings unto the storm, and spurs to steed,             I'd move unchained as wind across the world,     Sweep onward like a torrent mountain-hurled,             Nor sea, nor height, nor valley pause to heed.     The twilight spreads a dimness o'er our speed,             And shows the diamond-stars from hoofs up-whirled,     Since daylight now her curtained blue has juried,             And mystery and magic shadows breed.     The earth sleeps, but not I--not I--not I--             Who hasten to the shore where waves are loud     And toward me in the darkness whitely crowd.             Beneath them I would still my soul's deep cry--     Like ships the whirlpools seize to drag to death--             I'd plunge within the silence, sans thought, breath.

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