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Alexander Pushkin
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A NEREID
Among the glaucous waves that kiss gold Tauris' beaches 
I saw a Nereid, as dawn flushed heaven's reaches. 
I barely dared to breathe, hid in the olive trees, 
While the young demigoddess rose above the seas; 
Her young, her swan-white breast above the waters lifting, 
From her soft hair she wrung the foam in garlands 
drifting.
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