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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Talisman + +Author: George Borrow + +Release Date: May 27, 2004 [eBook #12458] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALISMAN*** +</pre> +<p><a name="startoftext"></a></p> +<p>Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk</p> +<h1>THE TALISMAN<br /> +FROM THE RUSSIAN OF ALEXANDER PUSHKIN<br /> +WITH OTHER PIECES</h1> +<p>Contents:</p> +<p> The Talisman<br /> + The Mermaid<br /> + Ancient Russian Song<br /> + Ancient Ballad<br /> + The Renegade</p> +<h2>THE TALISMAN</h2> +<p><i>From the Russian of Pushkin</i>.</p> +<p>Where fierce the surge with awful bellow<br /> +Doth ever lash the rocky wall;<br /> +And where the moon most brightly mellow<br /> +Dost beam when mists of evening fall;<br /> +Where midst his harem’s countless blisses<br /> +The Moslem spends his vital span,<br /> +A Sorceress there with gentle kisses<br /> +Presented me a Talisman.</p> +<p>And said: until thy latest minute<br /> +Preserve, preserve my Talisman;<br /> +A secret power it holds within it—<br /> +’Twas love, true love the gift did plan.<br /> +From pest on land, or death on ocean,<br /> +When hurricanes its surface fan,<br /> +O object of my fond devotion!<br /> +Thou scap’st not by my Talisman.</p> +<p>The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,<br /> +Or ruddy gold ’twill not bestow;<br /> +’Twill not subdue the turban’d numbers,<br /> +Before the Prophet’s shrine which bow;<br /> +Nor high through air on friendly pinions<br /> +Can bear thee swift to home and clan,<br /> +From mournful climes and strange dominions—<br /> +From South to North—my Talisman.</p> +<p>But oh! when crafty eyes thy reason<br /> +With sorceries sudden seek to move,<br /> +And when in Night’s mysterious season<br /> +Lips cling to thine, but not in love—<br /> +From proving then, dear youth, a booty<br /> +To those who falsely would trepan<br /> +From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,<br /> +Protect thee shall my Talisman.</p> +<h2>THE MERMAID</h2> +<p><i>From the Russian of Pushkin</i>.</p> +<p>Close by a lake, begirt with forest,<br /> +To save his soul, a Monk intent,<br /> +In fasting, prayer and labours sorest<br /> +His days and nights, secluded, spent;<br /> +A grave already to receive him<br /> +He fashion’d, stooping, with his spade,<br /> +And speedy, speedy death to give him,<br /> +Was all that of the Saints he pray’d.</p> +<p>As once in summer’s time of beauty,<br /> +On bended knee, before his door,<br /> +To God he paid his fervent duty,<br /> +The woods grew more and more obscure:<br /> +Down o’er the lake a fog descended,<br /> +And slow the full moon, red as blood,<br /> +Midst threat’ning clouds up heaven wended—<br /> +Then gazed the Monk upon the flood.</p> +<p>He gaz’d, and, fear his mind surprising,<br /> +Himself no more the hermit knows:<br /> +He sees with foam the waters rising,<br /> +And then subsiding to repose,<br /> +And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,<br /> +A female thence her form uprais’d,<br /> +Pale as the snow which winter squanders,<br /> +And on the bank herself she plac’d.</p> +<p>She gazes on the hermit hoary,<br /> +And combs her long hair, tress by tress;<br /> +The Monk he quakes, but on the glory<br /> +Looks wistful of her loveliness;<br /> +Now becks with hand that winsome creature,<br /> +And now she noddeth with her head,<br /> +Then sudden, like a fallen meteor,<br /> +She plunges in her watery bed.</p> +<p>No sleep that night the old man cheereth,<br /> +No prayer throughout next day he pray’d<br /> +Still, still, against his wish, appeareth<br /> +Before him that mysterious maid.<br /> +Darkness again the wood investeth,<br /> +The moon midst clouds is seen to sail,<br /> +And once more on the margin resteth<br /> +The maiden beautiful and pale.</p> +<p>With head she bow’d, with look she courted,<br /> +And kiss’d her hand repeatedly,<br /> +Splashed with the water, gaily sported,<br /> +And wept and laugh’d like infancy—<br /> +She names the monk, with tones heart-urging<br /> +Exclaims “O Monk, come, come to me!” <a name="citation7"></a><a href="#footnote7">{7}</a><br /> +Then sudden midst the waters merging<br /> +All, all is in tranquillity.</p> +<p>On the third night the hermit fated<br /> +Beside those shores of sorcery,<br /> +Sat and the damsel fair awaited,<br /> +And dark the woods began to be—<br /> +The beams of morn the night mists scatter,<br /> +No Monk is seen then, well a day!<br /> +And only, only in the water<br /> +The lasses view’d his beard of grey.</p> +<h2>ANCIENT RUSSIAN SONG</h2> +<h3>i.</h3> +<p>The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;<br /> +As the good and gallant stripling shook and trembled;<br /> +A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,<br /> +O’er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet<br /> +The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,<br /> +The lappets of its front were button’d backward,<br /> +And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;<br /> +See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,<br /> +From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling;<br /> +On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,<br /> +Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;<br /> +Not a single soul the stripling good encounter’d,<br /> +Till encounter’d he the mother dear who bore him:<br /> +O my boy, O my treasure, and my darling!<br /> +By what mean hast thou render’d thee so drunken,<br /> +To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,<br /> +And the grass and the windel-straws art grasping?<br /> +To his Mother thus the gallant youth made answer:<br /> +’Twas not I, O mother dear, who made me drunken,<br /> +But the Sultan of the Turks has made me drunken<br /> +With three potent, various potations;<br /> +The first of them his keenly cutting sabre;<br /> +The next of them his never failing jav’lin;<br /> +The third of them his pistol’s leaden bullet.</p> +<h3>ii.</h3> +<p>O rustle not, ye verdant oaken branches!<br /> +Whilst I tell the gallant stripling’s tale of daring;<br /> +When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment<br /> +Before the dread tribunal of the grand Tsar,<br /> +Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:<br /> +Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!<br /> +Who assisted thee to ravage and to plunder;<br /> +I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.<br /> +I’ll tell thee, Tsar! our country’s hope and glory,<br /> +I’ll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:<br /> +Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;<br /> +Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;<br /> +The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;<br /> +The third it was a swift and speedy courser;<br /> +The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;<br /> +My messengers were furnace-harden’d arrows.<br /> +Replied the Tsar, our country’s hope and glory:<br /> +Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant’s bantling!<br /> +In thieving thou art skill’d and giving answers;<br /> +For thy answers and thy thieving I’ll reward thee<br /> +With a house upon the windy plain constructed<br /> +Of two pillars high, surmounted by a cross-beam.</p> +<h3>iii.</h3> +<p>O thou field of my delight so fair and verdant!<br /> +Thou scene of all my happiness and pleasure!<br /> +O how charmingly Nature hath array’d thee<br /> +With the soft green grass and juicy clover,<br /> +And with corn-flowers blooming and luxuriant.<br /> +One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;<br /> +In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and verdant!<br /> +A clump of bushes stands—a clump of hazels,<br /> +Upon their very top there sits an eagle,<br /> +And upon the bushes’ top—upon the hazels,<br /> +Compress’d within his claw he holds a raven,<br /> +And its hot blood he sprinkles on the dry ground;<br /> +And beneath the bushes’ clump—beneath the hazels,<br /> +Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;<br /> +All wounded, pierc’d and mangled is his body.<br /> +As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,<br /> +Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,<br /> +So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;<br /> +And aye she weeps, as flows a river’s water;<br /> +His sister weeps as flows a streamlet’s water;<br /> +His youthful wife, as falls the dew from heaven—<br /> +The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.</p> +<h2>ANCIENT BALLAD</h2> +<p><i>From the Malo Russian</i>.</p> +<p>From the wood a sound is gliding,<br /> +Vapours dense the plain are hiding,<br /> +How yon Dame her son is chiding.<br /> +“Son, away! nor longer tarry!<br /> +Would the Turks thee off would carry!”<br /> +“Ha; the Turkmen know and heed me;<br /> +Coursers good the Turkmen breed me.”</p> +<p>From the wood a sound is gliding,<br /> +Vapours dense the plain are hiding,<br /> +Still that Dame her son is chiding:<br /> +“Hence, begone! nor longer tarry!<br /> +Would the Horde <a name="citation11"></a><a href="#footnote11">{11}</a> +thee off would carry!”<br /> +“Ha! the Horde has learnt to prize me;<br /> +“’Tis the Horde with gold supplies me.”</p> +<p>Brings his horse his eldest sister,<br /> +And the next his arms, which glister,<br /> +Whilst the third, with childish prattle,<br /> +Cries, “when wilt return from battle?”</p> +<p>“Fill thy hand with sands, ray blossom!<br /> +Sow them on the rock’s rude bosom,<br /> +Night and morning stroll to view them,<br /> +With thy briny tears bedew them,<br /> +And when they shall sprout in glory<br /> +I’ll return me from the foray.”</p> +<p>From the wood a sound is gliding,<br /> +Vapours dense the plain are hiding,<br /> +Cries the Dame in anxious measure:<br /> +“Stay, I’ll wash thy head, my treasure!”<br /> +“Me shall wash the rains which splash me,<br /> +Me shall comb the thorns which gash me,<br /> +Me shall dry the winds which lash me.”</p> +<h2>THE RENEGADE</h2> +<p><i>From the Polish of Mickiewicz</i>.</p> +<p>Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,<br /> +Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;<br /> +The Pasha on sofa was sitting<br /> +In his harem’s glorious centre.</p> +<p>Greek sang and Tcherkass for his pleasure,<br /> +And Kergeesian captive is dancing;<br /> +In the eyes of the first heaven’s azure,<br /> +And in those black of Eblis is glancing.</p> +<p>But the Pasha’s attention is failing,<br /> +O’er his visage his fair turban stealeth;<br /> +From tchebouk <a name="citation13a"></a><a href="#footnote13a">{13a}</a> +he sleep is inhaling<br /> +Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth.</p> +<p>What rumour without is there breeding?<br /> +Ye fair ranks asunder why wend ye?<br /> +Kyslar Aga <a name="citation13b"></a><a href="#footnote13b">{13b}</a>, +a strange captive leading,<br /> +Cometh forward and crieth. “Efendy!</p> +<p>Whose face has the power when present<br /> +Midst the stars in divan which do muster,<br /> +Which amidst the gems of night’s crescent<br /> +Has the blaze of Aldeboran’s lustre.</p> +<p>Glance nearer, bright star! I have tiding,<br /> +Glad tiding, behold how in duty<br /> +From far Lehistan the wind, gliding.<br /> +Has brought this fresh tribute of beauty.</p> +<p>In the Padishaw’s garden there bloometh,<br /> +In proud Istambul, no such blossom;<br /> +From the wintry regions she cometh<br /> +Whose memory so lives in thy bosom.”</p> +<p>Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,<br /> +At her beauty all wonder intensely;<br /> +One moment the Pasha survey’d her,<br /> +And, dropping his tchebouk, without sense lay.</p> +<p>His turban has fallen from his forehead,<br /> +To assist him the bystanders started—<br /> +His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid—<br /> +See the Renegade’s soul has departed.</p> +<h2>Footnotes:</h2> +<p><a name="footnote7"></a><a href="#citation7">{7}</a> In the +book the opening double-quotes are double commas. These have been +replaced by opening quotes in this eBook - DP.</p> +<p><a name="footnote11"></a><a href="#citation11">{11}</a> The +Tartar Horde,—generally known by the appellation of “The +Golden,” which, some centuries since, was the dreaded and terrible +scourge of Southern Russia.</p> +<p><a name="footnote13a"></a><a href="#citation13a">{13a}</a> +Turkish pipe.</p> +<p><a name="footnote13b"></a><a href="#citation13b">{13b}</a> +Keeper of the women.</p> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALISMAN***</p> +<pre> + + +***** This file should be named 12458-h.htm or 12458-h.zip****** + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/4/5/12458 + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Talisman + +Author: George Borrow + +Release Date: May 27, 2004 [eBook #12458] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALISMAN*** + + +Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk + + + + +THE TALISMAN +FROM THE RUSSIAN OF ALEXANDER PUSHKIN +WITH OTHER PIECES + + + + +Contents: + + The Talisman + The Mermaid + Ancient Russian Song + Ancient Ballad + The Renegade + + + + +THE TALISMAN + + +From the Russian of Pushkin. + +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. + +And said: until thy latest minute +Preserve, preserve my Talisman; +A secret power it holds within it-- +'Twas love, true love the gift did plan. +From pest on land, or death on ocean, +When hurricanes its surface fan, +O object of my fond devotion! +Thou scap'st not by my Talisman. + +The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers, +Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow; +'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers, +Before the Prophet's shrine which bow; +Nor high through air on friendly pinions +Can bear thee swift to home and clan, +From mournful climes and strange dominions-- +From South to North--my Talisman. + +But oh! when crafty eyes thy reason +With sorceries sudden seek to move, +And when in Night's mysterious season +Lips cling to thine, but not in love-- +From proving then, dear youth, a booty +To those who falsely would trepan +From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty, +Protect thee shall my Talisman. + + + + +THE MERMAID + + +From the Russian of Pushkin. + +Close by a lake, begirt with forest, +To save his soul, a Monk intent, +In fasting, prayer and labours sorest +His days and nights, secluded, spent; +A grave already to receive him +He fashion'd, stooping, with his spade, +And speedy, speedy death to give him, +Was all that of the Saints he pray'd. + +As once in summer's time of beauty, +On bended knee, before his door, +To God he paid his fervent duty, +The woods grew more and more obscure: +Down o'er the lake a fog descended, +And slow the full moon, red as blood, +Midst threat'ning clouds up heaven wended-- +Then gazed the Monk upon the flood. + +He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising, +Himself no more the hermit knows: +He sees with foam the waters rising, +And then subsiding to repose, +And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders, +A female thence her form uprais'd, +Pale as the snow which winter squanders, +And on the bank herself she plac'd. + +She gazes on the hermit hoary, +And combs her long hair, tress by tress; +The Monk he quakes, but on the glory +Looks wistful of her loveliness; +Now becks with hand that winsome creature, +And now she noddeth with her head, +Then sudden, like a fallen meteor, +She plunges in her watery bed. + +No sleep that night the old man cheereth, +No prayer throughout next day he pray'd +Still, still, against his wish, appeareth +Before him that mysterious maid. +Darkness again the wood investeth, +The moon midst clouds is seen to sail, +And once more on the margin resteth +The maiden beautiful and pale. + +With head she bow'd, with look she courted, +And kiss'd her hand repeatedly, +Splashed with the water, gaily sported, +And wept and laugh'd like infancy-- +She names the monk, with tones heart-urging +Exclaims "O Monk, come, come to me!" {7} +Then sudden midst the waters merging +All, all is in tranquillity. + +On the third night the hermit fated +Beside those shores of sorcery, +Sat and the damsel fair awaited, +And dark the woods began to be-- +The beams of morn the night mists scatter, +No Monk is seen then, well a day! +And only, only in the water +The lasses view'd his beard of grey. + + + + +ANCIENT RUSSIAN SONG + + +i. + +The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled; +As the good and gallant stripling shook and trembled; +A linen shirt so fine his frame invested, +O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet +The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward, +The lappets of its front were button'd backward, +And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers; +See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth, +From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling; +On his bended bow his figure he supporteth, +Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding; +Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd, +Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him: +O my boy, O my treasure, and my darling! +By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken, +To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure, +And the grass and the windel-straws art grasping? +To his Mother thus the gallant youth made answer: +'Twas not I, O mother dear, who made me drunken, +But the Sultan of the Turks has made me drunken +With three potent, various potations; +The first of them his keenly cutting sabre; +The next of them his never failing jav'lin; +The third of them his pistol's leaden bullet. + +ii. + +O rustle not, ye verdant oaken branches! +Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring; +When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment +Before the dread tribunal of the grand Tsar, +Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question: +Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling! +Who assisted thee to ravage and to plunder; +I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades. +I'll tell thee, Tsar! our country's hope and glory, +I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood: +Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number; +Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight; +The second was a steely dudgeon dagger; +The third it was a swift and speedy courser; +The fourth of my companions was a bent bow; +My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows. +Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory: +Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's bantling! +In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers; +For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee +With a house upon the windy plain constructed +Of two pillars high, surmounted by a cross-beam. + +iii. + +O thou field of my delight so fair and verdant! +Thou scene of all my happiness and pleasure! +O how charmingly Nature hath array'd thee +With the soft green grass and juicy clover, +And with corn-flowers blooming and luxuriant. +One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee; +In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and verdant! +A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels, +Upon their very top there sits an eagle, +And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels, +Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven, +And its hot blood he sprinkles on the dry ground; +And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels, +Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling; +All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body. +As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch, +Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover, +So hovers there the mother dear who bore him; +And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water; +His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water; +His youthful wife, as falls the dew from heaven-- +The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven. + + + + +ANCIENT BALLAD + + +From the Malo Russian. + +From the wood a sound is gliding, +Vapours dense the plain are hiding, +How yon Dame her son is chiding. +"Son, away! nor longer tarry! +Would the Turks thee off would carry!" +"Ha; the Turkmen know and heed me; +Coursers good the Turkmen breed me." + +From the wood a sound is gliding, +Vapours dense the plain are hiding, +Still that Dame her son is chiding: +"Hence, begone! nor longer tarry! +Would the Horde {11} thee off would carry!" +"Ha! the Horde has learnt to prize me; +"'Tis the Horde with gold supplies me." + +Brings his horse his eldest sister, +And the next his arms, which glister, +Whilst the third, with childish prattle, +Cries, "when wilt return from battle?" + +"Fill thy hand with sands, ray blossom! +Sow them on the rock's rude bosom, +Night and morning stroll to view them, +With thy briny tears bedew them, +And when they shall sprout in glory +I'll return me from the foray." + +From the wood a sound is gliding, +Vapours dense the plain are hiding, +Cries the Dame in anxious measure: +"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my treasure!" +"Me shall wash the rains which splash me, +Me shall comb the thorns which gash me, +Me shall dry the winds which lash me." + + + + +THE RENEGADE + + +From the Polish of Mickiewicz. + +Now pay ye the heed that is fitting, +Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure; +The Pasha on sofa was sitting +In his harem's glorious centre. + +Greek sang and Tcherkass for his pleasure, +And Kergeesian captive is dancing; +In the eyes of the first heaven's azure, +And in those black of Eblis is glancing. + +But the Pasha's attention is failing, +O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth; +From tchebouk {13a} he sleep is inhaling +Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth. + +What rumour without is there breeding? +Ye fair ranks asunder why wend ye? +Kyslar Aga {13b}, a strange captive leading, +Cometh forward and crieth. "Efendy! + +Whose face has the power when present +Midst the stars in divan which do muster, +Which amidst the gems of night's crescent +Has the blaze of Aldeboran's lustre. + +Glance nearer, bright star! I have tiding, +Glad tiding, behold how in duty +From far Lehistan the wind, gliding. +Has brought this fresh tribute of beauty. + +In the Padishaw's garden there bloometh, +In proud Istambul, no such blossom; +From the wintry regions she cometh +Whose memory so lives in thy bosom." + +Then the gauzes removes he which shade her, +At her beauty all wonder intensely; +One moment the Pasha survey'd her, +And, dropping his tchebouk, without sense lay. + +His turban has fallen from his forehead, +To assist him the bystanders started-- +His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid-- +See the Renegade's soul has departed. + + + + +Footnotes: + + +{7} In the book the opening double-quotes are double commas. 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