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The messenger, dumbfounded,

Looked silly as a mawk—

“Remember, Daddy Perun,

Be careful with your talk!”

Perun, enraged, was ready

The messenger to drub,

And reached beneath the table

For his big thunder-club.

“Your Tsarship’s humble servant,

I hasten to report

With abject shame and horror

God Perun’s foul retort.