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 "You may devour your chocolate

Without him, as you please;

And for his situation

He does not give a sneeze.

Vladimir, after hearing

This villainous retort,

Spat on the marble flooring,

As did his noble court.

They left, but he recalled them

With a contemptuous cry

“Just leave it till tomorrow

We’re sitting high and dry!

“We need not beg god Perun

To let his thunder loose,

Since we, with shot and cannon

Can lot of noise produce.”