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THE CRAG by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV

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First Line: IN THE NIGHT A GOLDEN CLOUDLET STRAYING
Last Line: SOFTLY, FOR AIR'S EMPTINESS COMPLAINING.
IN the night a golden cloudlet straying
Slumbered on a crag's breast, huge and burly;
Rose the damsel in the morning early,
Gaily fled through heaven's azure, playing.

But upon the wrinkled rock remaining
Faintly still a trace of brightness wandered:
Lone the giant stood, and deeply pondered
Softly, for air's emptiness complaining.



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