And lo, once on a time at night the Shaman waked Anhelli,
saying to him : “Sleep not, but come with me,
for there are mighty matters in the wilderness.”
Having put on a white garment, therefore,
Anhelli followed the old man, and they walked by the light of the stars.
And when they had gone a little way they beheld a camp all of little children
and striplings who had been driven to Siberia, and they were resting by a fire.
And in the centre of the throng on a Tatar horse sat a Russian priest,
who had at his saddle two baskets of bread.
And he began to instruct those children according to the new Russian faith
and accord
(Juliusz Slowacki)
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