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First Line: Clouds in the skies above, hastily scurrying
Last Line: You have no country, you know not of banishment!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich


CLOUDS in the skies above, hastily scurrying
Over blue steppes, in a pearly row endlessly,
Are you, as I am, to banishment hurrying,
From the lov'd North to the South going friendlessly?

Who is compelling you? Destiny's ruthlessness?
Envy concealed? or discover'd iniquity?
Or is it friends with a venomous truthlessness?
Is it the burden of sinful obliquity?

No! you are weary of fields lying wastingly....
Strangers to passion and strangers to punishment,
Always at liberty, cold everlastingly,
You have no country, you know not of banishment!





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