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 But Perun rebuked her kindly:

“Unavailing is your zeal,

Put your sword back in its scabbard

For my hour has come, I feel.”

God Perun is safely shackled

In the dungeon, in disgrace;

But the legal sharks yet have not

Found a law to fit his case.

Now the barristers came, trembling,

To the Tsar with the appeal

That there are no ordinances

Which with Perun’s case can deal.

The military court, supreme,

Rules with a vigilance;

It carries in its knapsack

Every law and ordinance.