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Stepped out on a sandy glade
Suddenly two fiery sparks and dark shadow
Rushed by… And then
A beast leaped out
From the thicket and laid down
Playing on its back upon the sand
It was a huge snow leopard
The wilderness’ eternal guest
A raw bone it gnawed
And purred wagging its tail
Bloodshot eyes gazed
At the full moon
And with silver shone its fur
I seized a horned branch I awaited
The moment of the battle
My heart felt thirst for blood and struggle
Oh, yet my fate
Led me another way
But now I bet
I would have been the daring one
In my homeland
I watched And then he noticed me
His foe… And a howl
Long and plaintive as a moan
He uttered… Angrily
Digging the sand with his paw
Reared up, crouched low
And his first and rabid burst
Could crush me down
But I struck first
Exact and fast I was
My sturdy branch, as an axe
His wide forehead slashed
He groaned like a man
And back he fell And though
The thick blood like a wave
Gushed out of the wound
Anew the deadly battle raged on!
He rushed upon my chest
But in his throat I stabbed
My weapon… and turned it twice
He let out wailing cry
But lunged with his last strength
So we, entwined like a pair of snakes
As tight as good old friends
We fell at once, and in the dark
The battle raged upon the ground
And at that moment, full of ire
As a beast I was so mad and wild
Like him I blazed and screamed
As though I were born amid
The wolves’ and leopards’ dens
Under fresh crown of forests
It seemed I had forgotten then
The human voice And my chest gave
An eerie scream, as if since I was born
My tongue
Knew no other sound
But my foe’s strength began to fail
He tossed, and breathing heavily
He squeezed me for the last time
His staring eyes
Flashed with a terrifying threat
Then slowly closed forevermore
But facing his exultant foe
Like true warrior he met his death
Face to face!
