Ah! The Pearls Of The East How Famed They Are Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Ah! the pearls of east how famed they are
For them how many men with spears fell
Turned inside them while the thin fingers
Of blood rolled.

How many a maiden fresh and full demure
With love-looks and potion-laden full
With darting eyes and wild – she looked.

How many a modest maiden breast
Heaved at the touch of pearls of east
And when the even tinct the skies with spots of red
And the wild dusk heralded sensous night:

And when the moon shone on the bosomed sea
And when the owl called forth from the old oak
And when the clouds passed on the shadowed lake:

Then Night bedecked with pearls of east walked like a queen.